SAN ANTONIO - Since winning the Heisman Trophy, Robert Griffin III is often shadowed by a bodyguard of sorts to dissuade autograph seekers, and this week he tucked his dreadlocks under a hat in hopes of strolling through Sea World incognito.
"I got a lot of double-takes," the Baylor quarterback said. "If you can get a double-take, you can walk far enough away to where they'll be discouraged to approach you. But it was cool. I didn't mind."
Now it's a question of whether RG3 is about to give college football its last look at him altogether.
The nation's most electrifying player leads No. 15 Baylor (9-3) into the Alamo Bowl against Washington (7-5) on Thursday night while keeping his decision about leaving for the NFL private for now.
Griffin, who says he can't "go to Wendy's and get a cheeseburger without signing 1,000 autographs" since winning college football's top award, reiterated in San Antonio that he's undecided about forgoing his senior year. He said his parents are looking at his draft prospects but denies having any substantial talks with them.
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Baylor can hardly feel jilted if this is Griffin's last game.
The fourth-year junior, who also won the Davey O'Brien Award and is the AP Player of the Year, has raised the program's profile to unseen heights. He rescued the Bears from their perennial status as the Big 12's punch line and has Baylor on a five-game winning streak, its longest in 20 years.
A win against Washington would match the school record of 10 wins when Mike Singletary was a senior in 1980, and merely playing in back-to-back bowls is a first for Baylor in two decades. Simply put, it has been a magical season the school doesn't want to see end.
Washington won't exactly say the same.
The Huskies stumbled into a second consecutive bowl game dropping four of their last six and losing badly to all four ranked teams they played this season. That included Stanford and Andrew Luck, the Heisman runner-up to Griffin, who coasted in a 65-21 win that began Washington's second-half slide.
Alamo Bowl
• Who: No. 15 Baylor (9-3) vs. Washington (7-5)
• Where: San Antonio
• When: 7 p.m. on ESPN
• Line: Baylor by 9 1/2
• Series record: Baylor leads 3-1
• Players to watch: Baylor: Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III was the nation's most efficient passer and threw for nearly 4,000 yards. … WR Kendall Wright had 1,572 receiving yards and 13 TDs. … Washington: RB Chris Polk ran for 1,341 yards and 11 touchdowns.
• Facts and figures: Baylor is playing in just its third bowl game since 1994. The Bears haven't won a bowl game since 1992. Ending that drought would give Baylor its first 10-win season since 1980.
