“ Tennessee is going to have some regrets,” CBS Sports ’ Matt Zenitz said about Nico Iamaleava at UCLA ’s fall camp. Josh Heupel thought he was getting a steal deal in the QB when he recruited him for Tennessee. He ended up gutting the program in his dramatic move to UCLA. And DeShaun Foster is getting exactly what Heupel had hoped for in Iamaleava’s second season. He is not just Foster’s, but the entire program’s gamble for this season, and is the lone guy who can tip the needle for unprecedented success at UCLA.

Nico Iamaleava is home and happy. Josh Heupel is far from that situation. The QB came with his flaws in 2024, as defenses begin to catch on to the things that impeded him. But this season Iamaleava means business. “This is a year where, you know, I’m trying to get

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