  We consider a quantum corrected inflation scenario driven by a generic GUT or
Standard Model type particle model whose scalar field playing the role of an
inflaton has a strong non-minimal coupling to gravity. We show that currently
widely accepted bounds on the Higgs mass falsify the suggestion of the paper
arXiv:0710.3755 (where the role of radiative corrections was underestimated)
that the Standard Model Higgs boson can serve as the inflaton. However, if the
Higgs mass could be raised to $\sim 230$ GeV, then the Standard Model could
generate an inflationary scenario with the spectral index of the primordial
perturbation spectrum $n_s\simeq 0.935$ (barely matching present observational
data) and the very low tensor-to-scalar perturbation ratio $r\simeq 0.0006$.
