Tennessee-UCLA 'QB swap' headlines college football spring portal superlatives - ESPN

As the college football offseason has churned through the spring months, the transfer portal and its seemingly constant activity has provided fans plenty of discussion fodder.

This most recent portal window may have been less active than its end-of-season counterpart, but it still brought plenty of storylines and hijinks to pore over.

Forget the best player or the best overall hauls. Here are some superlatives that can be handed out for other, more uncommon spring portal moments:

Nico Iamaleava, Tennessee to UCLA; Joey Aguilar, UCLA to Tennessee

The story of the spring portal was Nico Iamaleava's departure from the Tennessee Volunteers. The starting quarterback from the Vols' 10-3 College Football Playoff campaign decamped in mid-April, setting off a saga that would come to a bizarre conclusion. Iamaleava, a Southern California native, landed with the UCLA Bruins.

In turn, Tennessee also hit the portal to find its replacement for Iamaleava. Its solution? None other than Joey Aguilar, a former Appalachian State transfer who was UCLA's projected starter before Iamaleava arrived. Suddenly, two Power 4 programs had effectively pulled off a concept alien to college sports: a trade.

Micah Hudson, Texas A&M to Texas Tech

On Dec. 15, Micah Hudson announced he'd be transferring from the Texas Tech Red Raiders to the Texas A&M Aggies. He'd later step away from the program in January.

On April 27, Hudson announced his next destination — back to Lubbock, Texas, to rejoin the Red Raiders. Hudson, a former five-star recruit, was the highest-ranked recruit in Texas Tech program history when he first committed in high school.

«Lubbock has always been home, and I'm forever grateful to the coaching staff, teammates and fans who make