.Max Olson, ESPN Workers WriterSep 1, 2024, 03:19 AM ETCloseCovers the Large 12Joined ESPN in 2012Graduate of the University of NebraskaArizona pass receiver Tetairoa McMillan started his extremely expected junior season with a record-setting night.The preseason All-American and also predicted first-round draft choice established a new university document along with 304 obtaining yards as well as 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 functionality by a college recipient considering that Ohio State's Jaxon Smith-Njigba set up 347 obtaining yards versus Utah in the 2022 Flower Bowl. Just 5 various other FBS receivers have beat 300 yards over recent decade.In Arizona's very first activity as a member of the Major 12, McMillan registered the second-most acquiring yards in an activity in conference history. His previous job high was actually a 266-yard game against competing Arizona Condition final season.Editor's Picks2 RelatedMcMillan scored on plays of 69, 17, 78 and also 40 yards as well as almost possessed a fifth TD reception however was addressed at the 1-yard line. More than half of his receiving lawns (176) followed the catch." T-Mac is actually certainly exclusive, guy," first-year Arizona train Brent Brennan said. "He's simply something else." McMillan missed out on time this offseason while bouncing back coming from a reduced leg personal injury gone through in spring strategy and mentioned it thought "outstanding" to become back at work." These final four months, I've been grinding as well as ready to return on the industry," he stated. "Having the capacity to merely enjoy with my brothers once again, it is actually simply a real good thing. No matter the files, I'm merely satisfied to be back on the area along with my brothers." New Mexico maintained the Wildcats throughout the initial half and also took a 24-17 top late in the 2nd fourth. Three plays later, McMillan got rid of the Lobos for a 78-yard catch as well as diminish the side project to tie it up.Arizona's Tetairoa McMillan became the 7th FBS recipient over the last years to leading 300 receiving backyards in a game as well as additionally recorded on plays of 69, 17, 78 and 40 gardens. AP Photo/Darryl Webb" Those significant nitroglycerins were just astonishing," Brennan stated. "He beats the entire additional on the significant one down the sideline. He's outstanding. He is actually a fantastic competitor, as well as he is actually additionally certainly not satisfied. He felt like, 'We can play much better.' That's what you expect." Arizona made 627 complete yards of outburst and averaged 11 lawns per play, with quarterback Noah Fifita throwing for 422 yards as well as transfer managing backs Jacory Croskey-Merritt (New Mexico) and also Quali Conley (San Jose Condition) incorporating for 196 rushing backyards and also four scores.McMillan became some of university volleyball's most prominent playmakers in 2023 along with 90 catches for 1,402 lawns (5th very most in the FBS) and also 10 goals as a student on a Wildcats staff that gained 10 activities and also the Alamo Bowl.After Jedd Fisch as well as his mentoring staff entrusted to consume at Washington in January, Fifita and McMillan decided to bypass the transmission gateway and also remain at Arizona. The former colleagues at Servite Secondary school in Anaheim, The golden state, wished to keep playing all together as well as aid Brennan design an opponent." Everyone in this building, the brotherhood our experts already possessed, the culture we had actually set in right here, our team merely really did not intend to leave this structure," McMillan claimed. "The legacy that we currently had began over listed below, our company would like to continue this tradition. By the end of the day, our company involved Tucson to become plan changers. Ideally, Tucson, y' all can discover honor in our play.".