All the chatter, all the hype — anyone watching the game on Saturday quickly learned that it was real. Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava absolutely buried Chattanooga before they could even get warmed up, scoring 38 points in the matter of roughly 20 minutes.
Let’s be clear, it was just Chattanooga, but that felt different than last year. The passing attack largely struggled with Joe Milton running the show. The inaccuracy, inconsistency, indecision just never got straightened out. We didn’t see any of that on Saturday from Iamaleava.
A half of work left Iamaleava with 314 passing yards and three touchdowns.