.Maximum Olson, ESPN Workers WriterSep 1, 2024, 03:19 AM ETCloseCovers the Major 12Joined ESPN in 2012Graduate of the University of NebraskaArizona pass receiver Tetairoa McMillan began his strongly anticipated junior period with a record-setting night.The preseason All-American as well as predicted first-round draft pick put a new school file with 304 getting yards and also 4 touchdowns on 10 catches in the No. 21 Wildcats' 61-39 sway New Mexico.The 6-foot-5, 210-pound wideout delivered the very first 300-yard performance by a college receiver given that Ohio State's Jaxon Smith-Njigba put up 347 receiving yards against Utah in the 2022 Flower Dish. Merely five various other FBS recipients have surpassed 300 lawns over the past decade.In Arizona's initial game as a participant of the Significant 12, McMillan registered the second-most getting backyards in a game busy history. His previous profession high was actually a 266-yard game versus competing Arizona State final season.Editor's Picks2 RelatedMcMillan scored on plays of 69, 17, 78 and also 40 lawns as well as virtually had a fifth TD receiving yet was handled at the 1-yard line. More than half of his acquiring lawns (176) came after the catch." T-Mac is actually certainly unique, male," first-year Arizona instructor Brent Brennan stated. "He is actually just something else." McMillan skipped opportunity this offseason while bouncing back coming from a lesser leg trauma gone through in springtime strategy as well as claimed it believed "outstanding" to be back at work." These final four months, I have actually been grinding and also prepared to come back on the area," he claimed. "Being able to merely have fun with my brothers once again, it is actually simply a real good thing. No matter the files, I'm just pleased to become back on the field with my brothers." New Mexico kept up with the Wildcats throughout the first fifty percent and also took a 24-17 top behind time in the 2nd quarter. Three plays later on, McMillan shed the Lobos for a 78-yard catch and run down the subsidiary to tie it up.Arizona's Tetairoa McMillan came to be the seventh FBS receiver previously years to best 300 acquiring gardens in an activity and additionally racked up on plays of 69, 17, 78 and also 40 yards. AP Photo/Darryl Webb" Those large dynamites were actually simply amazing," Brennan stated. "He outran the entire second on the significant one down the side project. He's awesome. He's a spectacular competition, and he's also not happy. He resembled, 'Our team can play far better.' That's what you hope for." Arizona made 627 total lawns of outburst and also averaged 11 gardens per play, along with quarterback Noah Fifita throwing for 422 lawns and also transmit operating spines Jacory Croskey-Merritt (New Mexico) and Quali Conley (San Jose State) incorporating for 196 hurrying lawns and 4 scores.McMillan became some of university volleyball's very most prevailing playmakers in 2023 along with 90 catches for 1,402 gardens (fifth very most in the FBS) and also 10 goals as a sophomore on a Wildcats team that won 10 activities as well as the Alamo Bowl.After Jedd Fisch as well as his coaching team delegated to take control of at Washington in January, Fifita as well as McMillan decided to bypass the transfer website and also remain at Arizona. The former colleagues at Servite High School in Anaheim, California, intended to always keep playing together and also assist Brennan create a challenger." Everybody within this structure, the brotherhood our company actually had, the society our experts had actually embeded in here, we simply failed to wish to leave this building," McMillan claimed. "The heritage that our company actually had actually continued below, our team wished to continue this legacy. In the end of the time, our company pertained to Tucson to become program changers. Perhaps, Tucson, y' all may discover pleasure in our play.".