Five storylines ahead of Arizona football's season finale against 14th-ranked Arizona State on Saturday in Tucson. For the last eight years, Arizona quarterback Noah Fifita and wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan have been teammates through middle school, high school and now the highest level of collegiate football. McMillan and Fifita have been an inseparable duo for nearly a decade and now they're about to suit up together at Arizona one last time, before McMillan, a projected Top 10 pick, declares for the NFL Draft.
Although Fifita is draft-eligible, the quarterback will likely stay another season at Arizona. "I think it's really critical that the city of Tucson, our fans, our alumni show up big time for this game because this might be the last time you see a beautiful Noah Fifita pass to T-Mac," Arizona head coach Brent Brennan said on ESPN Tucson's "Spears and Ali." Arizona wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan, left, and quarterback Noah Fifita celebrate after McMillan’s catch-and-run score in the third quarter of the Wildcats' season-opener against New Mexico.
Fifita and McMillan, along with Servite High School (California) teammates Jacob Manu and Keyan Burnett, signed with the Wildcats in 2022 and were a part of the group to help alter the direction of the UA football program under former head coach Jedd Fisch. When Fisch left for the same job at Washington in January, Fifita and McMillan held a players-only meeting and galvanized a majority of the returning players from the.
