Wilton Speight intimated that he expected to be UCLA’s starting quarterback three months before he threw his first pass in training camp.
“I don’t really think like, ‘Oh, what if I don’t start,’ ” the graduate transfer told The Times during a spring interview. “I’ve never thought like that. I think that helped me win the starting job two years in a row at Michigan and I think it will help me moving forward too.”
Speight’s words seemed prophetic after the Bruins announced on Thursday that he would start their season opener against Cincinnati on Saturday at the Rose Bowl.