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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 ∼ 230 GeV, then the Standard Model could generate an inflationary scenario with the spectral index of the primordial perturbation spectrum ns ≃ 0.935 (barely matching present observational data) and the very low tensor-to-scalar perturbation ratio r ≃ 0.0006.

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