.Max Olson, ESPN Team WriterSep 1, 2024, 03:19 AM ETCloseCovers the Significant 12Joined ESPN in 2012Graduate of the College of NebraskaArizona pass receiver Tetairoa McMillan started his very expected junior time along with a record-setting night.The preseason All-American and also predicted first-round draught choice placed a brand new college report along with 304 acquiring backyards and also 4 touchdowns on 10 catches in the No. 21 Wildcats' 61-39 draw New Mexico.The 6-foot-5, 210-pound wideout provided the first 300-yard performance by an university receiver since Ohio State's Jaxon Smith-Njigba put up 347 obtaining yards versus Utah in the 2022 Flower Dish. Merely 5 other FBS receivers have actually outdoed 300 yards over the past decade.In Arizona's initial video game as a participant of the Major 12, McMillan signed up the second-most acquiring gardens in a game busy background. His previous job high was a 266-yard activity against rival Arizona Condition final season.Editor's Picks2 RelatedMcMillan scored on plays of 69, 17, 78 as well as 40 backyards and almost had a 5th TD reception yet was taken on at the 1-yard line. Majority of his getting gardens (176) followed the catch." T-Mac is clearly special, man," first-year Arizona trainer Brent Brennan claimed. "He is actually just another thing." McMillan overlooked opportunity this offseason while recouping coming from a lower leg trauma experienced in springtime method and also said it felt "amazing" to become back at work." These final 4 months, I've been grinding and ready to come back on the industry," he said. "Being able to merely play with my bros once more, it's just a true blessing. No matter the records, I am actually simply delighted to be back on the field along with my bros." New Mexico stayed up to date with the Wildcats throughout the very first fifty percent and took a 24-17 lead behind time in the second one-fourth. Three plays later, McMillan burned the Lobos for a 78-yard catch as well as run down the side project to match it up.Arizona's Tetairoa McMillan became the seventh FBS receiver in the past years to top 300 acquiring backyards in an activity as well as also counted on plays of 69, 17, 78 and also 40 yards. AP Photo/Darryl Webb" Those major nitroglycerins were actually simply fabulous," Brennan stated. "He outran the whole second on the large one down the sideline. He's fantastic. He is actually a spectacular competition, as well as he is actually also certainly not happy. He was like, 'Our experts may participate in much better.' That's what you hope for." Arizona generated 627 overall lawns of outburst and also averaged 11 lawns every play, along with quarterback Noah Fifita tossing for 422 gardens and transfer running spines Jacory Croskey-Merritt (New Mexico) and Quali Conley (San Jose State) incorporating for 196 rushing yards and also 4 scores.McMillan became some of college football's very most dominant playmakers in 2023 along with 90 catches for 1,402 gardens (5th most in the FBS) and 10 goals as a sophomore on a Wildcats staff that won 10 video games and the Alamo Bowl.After Jedd Fisch as well as his coaching team delegated take control of at Washington in January, Fifita and McMillan chose to bypass the transmission portal and also remain at Arizona. The past teammates at Servite Senior high school in Anaheim, California, desired to maintain playing together and help Brennan construct a contender." Everybody in this particular property, the league our experts already possessed, the lifestyle our company had set in here, our company only failed to desire to leave this structure," McMillan stated. "The tradition that our team presently had actually restarted below, we desired to proceed this tradition. In the end of the time, we involved Tucson to be system changers. Ideally, Tucson, y' all can easily discover satisfaction in our play.".