The Tennessee Vols should be moving on up in the polls on Sunday, and they have an old friend to thank in part for that.
A trio of top 15 teams fell on Saturday before the evening kickoffs even arrived. Texas, Iowa State, and Penn State all fell on the road against unranked teams. And regarding the Nittany Lions, former Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava played a very big hand in that.
QB Nico Iamaleava totaled 5 touchdowns in UCLA’s 42-37 upset of #7 Penn State
Iamaleava and the Bruins limped into the game at 0-4 at the Rose Bowl against the Nittany Lions. The place where they had lost to Utah 43-10 and to New Mexico 35-10 earlier in the season. Their other two games were road losses to UNLV and Northwestern. Head coach DeShaun Foster was dismissed last month.
But college football is a funny ol’ dog sometimes, and Iamaleava and the Bruins proved that to be true in a game that, on paper, it seemed like they had absolutely no business in competing in, much less winning…