Like most Oklahoma Sooners fans, the program’s 54-48 double-overtime Rose Bowl loss to the Georgia Bulldogs on Monday was a hard pill to swallow for former Sooner and current L.A. Clippers forward Blake Griffin.
Griffin met with Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield Tuesday after the Clippers took down the Memphis Grizzlies at home, and had, while understandable disappointed of the outcome, some comforting words to say for the signal-caller and the rest of the Oklahoma football team, per Tomer Azarly of ClutchPoints.
LA #Clippers (@LAClippers) forward Blake Griffin (@blakegriffin32) on quarterback Baker Mayfield (@baker_mayfield6) and the Oklahoma Sooners (@OU_Football) effort in the Rose Bowl against the Georgia Bulldogs (@FootballUGA). #RoseBowl pic.twitter.com/bgcHECY327
— Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) January 3, 2018
Mayfield was among the best quarterbacks in college this season, even winning the 2017 Heisman Award. He led the Sooners to a 12-1 overall record and a Big 12 title before booking a spot in the College Football Playoffs. In the Rose Bowl, the Sooners looked like they were headed to the CFP title game after getting ahead by 14 points at the half, but the Bulldogs overcame that deficit to send the game into overtime and steal a win in the end with a game-winning touchdown rush by Bulldogs senior running back Sony Michel. In what turned out to be his last game in college, Mayfield passed for 285 yards and two touchdowns to go with an interception.
Griffin also knows that heartbreak is like in college, as he and the Sooners were bounced out of the Big Dance in each of his two years in Norman.
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