[1] Griffin won four Big Ten Conference titles with the Buckeyes and was the first player to ever start in four Rose Bowls.

That year, he led Eastmoor to the Columbus City League championship, rushing for 267 yards on 31 carries in the title game against Linden-McKinley High School.

When he won a starting position his freshman year, many sophomores were disappointed because Griffin took their spot.

He led the Buckeyes in rushing as a freshman with 867 yards, but his numbers exploded the following year with the team's conversion to the I-formation.

Griffin was the only back to lead the Big Ten Conference in rushing for three straight years until Jonathan Taylor did so from 2017 to 2019.

[5] Griffin is one of only two players in collegiate football history to start four Rose Bowl games, the other being Brian Cushing.

Griffin finished fifth in the Heisman vote in his sophomore year and won the award as a junior and senior.

[citation needed] Following the end of his Bengals career, Griffin played very briefly with the Jacksonville Bulls of the United States Football League (USFL).

Formerly, he served as assistant athletic director for the university and speaks to the football team before every game.

Griffin also serves on the board of directors for Motorists Insurance, which has offices in downtown Columbus, Abercrombie and Fitch, and the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, based in Irving, Texas.

[citation needed] Along with former National Basketball Association basketball player Magic Johnson, Griffin was one of the investors in Mandalay Baseball Properties LLC, which owned the Dayton Dragons, a single-A Minor League affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, prior to the sale of the team in 2014 to Palisades Arcadia Baseball LLC.