.Max Olson, ESPN Personnel WriterSep 1, 2024, 03:19 AM ETCloseCovers the Huge 12Joined ESPN in 2012Graduate of the University of NebraskaArizona wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan kicked off his very foreseed junior time with a record-setting night.The preseason All-American and also predicted first-round draft selection put a brand-new university document along with 304 getting yards and four goals on 10 catches in the No. 21 Wildcats' 61-39 win over New Mexico.The 6-foot-5, 210-pound wideout delivered the 1st 300-yard efficiency by a college recipient considering that Ohio Condition's Jaxon Smith-Njigba put up 347 acquiring yards against Utah in the 2022 Flower Dish. Merely 5 other FBS receivers have actually surpassed 300 lawns over the past decade.In Arizona's initial video game as a participant of the Significant 12, McMillan signed up the second-most acquiring lawns in an activity in conference past history. His previous profession high was actually a 266-yard activity against rivalrous Arizona State final season.Editor's Picks2 RelatedMcMillan slashed on plays of 69, 17, 78 and 40 gardens as well as almost had a fifth TD receiving however was actually dealt with at the 1-yard line. Over half of his getting gardens (176) followed the catch." T-Mac is certainly exclusive, male," first-year Arizona coach Brent Brennan pointed out. "He is actually simply something else." McMillan missed time this offseason while recovering from a lesser leg accident experienced in spring season technique as well as said it experienced "amazing" to become back at work." These last four months, I have actually been actually grinding and also all set to get back on the field," he claimed. "Managing to just have fun with my brothers once more, it is actually simply a real good thing. No matter the records, I am actually merely delighted to become back on the area with my brothers." New Mexico stayed on top of the Wildcats throughout the 1st fifty percent and also took a 24-17 lead late in the 2nd quarter. 3 plays eventually, McMillan got rid of the Lobos for a 78-yard catch and diminish the subsidiary to match it up.Arizona's Tetairoa McMillan became the seventh FBS receiver over the last many years to leading 300 getting backyards in a video game as well as also racked up on plays of 69, 17, 78 as well as 40 lawns. AP Photo/Darryl Webb" Those large dynamites were actually simply extraordinary," Brennan claimed. "He outran the entire additional on the major one down the side project. He's amazing. He's an incredible competitor, and also he's also certainly not satisfied. He felt like, 'Our team can easily play better.' That's what you anticipate." Arizona made 627 complete backyards of outburst as well as balanced 11 lawns every play, with quarterback Noah Fifita tossing for 422 backyards as well as transmit operating backs Jacory Croskey-Merritt (New Mexico) as well as Quali Conley (San Jose State) blending for 196 rushing yards and also four scores.McMillan became some of university volleyball's very most dominant playmakers in 2023 with 90 catches for 1,402 yards (fifth most in the FBS) and also 10 touchdowns as a student on a Wildcats staff that succeeded 10 games and the Alamo Bowl.After Jedd Fisch and his training staff delegated to take over at Washington in January, Fifita and also McMillan decided to bypass the move portal as well as stay at Arizona. The past colleagues at Servite Secondary school in Anaheim, The golden state, intended to maintain participating in with each other as well as help Brennan design a contender." Everybody in this particular structure, the brotherhood our team currently had, the society our team had actually set in listed below, we merely didn't wish to leave this structure," McMillan claimed. "The heritage that we currently had actually restarted right here, our team intended to proceed this legacy. By the end of the day, we pertained to Tucson to become program changers. With any luck, Tucson, y' all may discover satisfaction in our play.".