ATLANTA — Rams quarterback Jared Goff, who went to California, is proudly repping his university at the Super Bowl this week.

During the Thursday media interview session, Goff was asked by a reporter what the names Joe Kapp, Craig Morton, Vince Ferragamo and Aaron Rodgers meant to him.

“Yeah, all the Cal guys to play in the Super Bowl, right?’’ he said. “So exciting. I think we have five now, two more than the next school. Good for the Cal Bears.”

Indeed, Goff is the fifth former Cal quarterback to start the Super Bowl. That’s one Goff has on his Patriots counterpart, Tom Brady. Though Brady is playing in his ninth Super Bowl, he’s the only former Michigan quarterback to start the game.

Alabama, with Bart Starr, Joe Namath and Kenny Stabler; Notre Dame, with Daryle Lamonica, Joe Montana and Joe Theismann; and Purdue, with Len Dawson, Bob Griese and Drew Brees, rank second with three Super Bowl quarterbacks.

Seven schools — UCLA (Billy Kilmer, Troy Aikman), Stanford (Jim Plunkett, John Elway), BYU (Jim McMahon, Steve Young), Maryland (Boomer Esiason, Neil O’Donnell), Washington State (Mark Rypien, Drew Bledsoe), Delaware (Rich Gannon, Joe Flacco) and Boston College (Matt Hasselbeck, Matt Ryan) — have two.

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