Former Tennessee quarterback, Nico Iamaliava, has been one of the most disappointing players in all of college football this season.

But has he been the most disappointing?

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But first, we're going to dive into a CBS sports article about the most disappointing players so far in the 2025 season, this college football season. The first quarter is kind of over with. Really, the first quarter, in my opinion, to the first four games. That's going to be after this weekend for most teams. If nobody else has had to buy, I don't know where anybody's buy weeks are. But nonetheless, it's kind of the first quarter, right? And then then, well, I guess that'd be the first third. Yeah, so the first quarter is over. Yeah, simple math, right? Nobody said we'd be doing math here. The first quarter of the season is over. The first third of the season will be over in terms of games played after this weekend. But nonetheless, it's the sample size, it's not great, but it's enough of a sample size where we can kind of start drawing some conclusions about who's been great, who's been bad, what teams are real, what teams could be contenders.

And CBS Sports put out an article about some of the most disappointing players so far in the 2025 season.

And there's no Tennessee football player on here, thankfully, but there's a lot of Tennessee connections and or players on teams that Tennessee is going to play still on the schedule.

So I thought it was very relevant, plus a former Tennessee quarterback is on this list.

And I'm not trying to bait with the title and the thumbnail and all that.

But I did think it was interesting that Nico I Amaliava's name is on this article.

Obviously, things have gone horribly wrong.

UCLA, Deshaun Foster fired on Sunday their own three, or O and four, whatever it is,

and Nico has not been lighting the world on fire whatsoever.

This is what they had to say about Nico Iamaliava.

He is officially the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. He is the seventh name mentioned on this list,

I don't know there's any particular order, but this is what the article says about Nico I Amalia.

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