Sonny Dykes may be the least surprised person in the country to see Nick Foles thriving again. The new SMU head coach had a front-row seat for the turning point in Foles’s prolific career at Arizona as the Wildcats’ offensive coordinator from 2007 to ’09.
Strong-armed Matt Scott had actually won the quarterback battle in 2009, the year Foles became eligible after transferring from Michigan State. But in Week 3, Scott struggled at Iowa and was replaced by Foles.
“Nick came in and just took over,” Dykes told SI Tuesday while on the road recruiting in West Texas.