COLUMBUS, Ohio — This is just one recruiting story in the battle between Ohio State and Michigan. They’ll fight on the field for the 116th time Saturday, but they also go head-to-head for talent year-round, not everywhere, not all the time, but often enough. One of the places they’ve fought is New Jersey. One of the players they fought over is second-year defensive end Tyler Friday. The fact that he’s not playing for Michigan on Saturday boils down to the one part of the Ohio State recruiting machine that’s eventually going to need to be replaced. “Larry Johnson,” Friday told cleveland.com. “Larry Johnson was the reason.” Everyone knows that Johnson is the reason that freshman defensive end Zach Harrison picked the Buckeyes over the Wolverines. Harrison, a five-star recruit from the Columbus suburbs, was recruited hard by current OSU assistants Al Washington and Greg Mattison when they worked for Michigan…
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