Baker Mayfield dons Michigan tank prime to repay wager with Todd Bowles following Wolverines’ win over Oklahoma

Baker Mayfield didn’t have the very best of weekends.

On Sunday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers opened the NFL season with a 33-27 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. Mayfield threw for 216 yards, however was sacked 4 occasions and didn’t throw a landing cross.

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A day earlier than the Buccaneers’ first sport, Mayfield’s Oklahoma misplaced to Michigan 17-10. That defeat meant the quarterback needed to pay up on a wager between himself and his head coach, Todd Bowles, whose son Troy is a senior linebacker and recorded 9 whole tackles in opposition to the Sooners.

For his weekly assembly with the media on Wednesday, Mayfield walked as much as the rostrum carrying a No. 18 Michigan tank prime (Troy Bowles’ quantity) together with his head coach singing the Wolverines’ combat track.

“That hurts, that hurts actual unhealthy,” Mayfield stated. “It has been a tough couple of days.”

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When requested if Buccaneers guard Ben Bredeson, who additionally went to Michigan, purchased the tank prime for him, Mayfield stated, “No, he is most likely bought one thing worse.”

We’ll see if Bredeson and Mayfield had a wager of their very own. If not, carrying a tank prime of rival colours is not so unhealthy.

Happily for Mayfield, Michigan doesn’t have a sideline mascot, in any other case we might have had one other Tyquan Lewis-DeForest Buckner state of affairs when Lewis needed to don an Oregon mascot costume after Buckner’s Geese beat Ohio State in 2024.