This was once a familiar feeling to Justin McMillan, being on a football field and helping his team secure important wins while throwing touchdown passes.
He did plenty of both while in high school, where he was a two-time Texas state championship-winning quarterback who threw 72 touchdown passes over his final two seasons.
That was nearly four years ago, and that's how long the wait was for him to do it again -- for him to throw the first touchdown pass of his college career.
That moment finally came Friday (Sept. 28).
McMillan, now at Tulane after his late-August transfer away from LSU, replaced senior starting quarterback Jonathan Banks after he cramped up and limped to the sideline late in the third quarter against Memphis at Yulman Stadium.