When Qwuantrezz Knight and Brittain Brown were born on Oct. 10, 1997, the UCLA football team was on its way to a No. 5 final ranking in the polls.
Nearly a quarter-century later, the Bruins have not returned to that level of success and national respect. That fact is not lost on Knight and Brown, brothers in a cosmic sense who became roommates and fast friends last year upon arriving in Westwood as graduate transfers.
“Nobody knows that me and Brittain have the same birthday,” Knight confided to reporters last week as UCLA began spring practice.
