Monday: In the time slot that annually combines five-day-loopy college football watchers with lots of casual observers (an attention combo that blew up on Bill Belichick last year), hot-seat poster child Mike Norvell is a -2.5 home underdog against an ACC contender, No. 19 SMU.

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Griffin Missant joined The Sporting News in 2025 as a fantasy football intern. He graduated from Grand Valley State University, where he covered the Lakers football program. He has also worked for Sleeper and the Fantasy Trade Room. He has played fantasy for over a decade, and has been passionate about fantasy football ever since.