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Michigan State heard about Le'Veon Bell from ... Ohio State? How rivals help one another

SportsPulse: The 2019 LSU Tigers will go down as the greatest team in program history. For Joe Burrow, his 2019 campaign ranks as arguably the greatest individual season we may have ever seen in 150 years of college football. USA TODAY

Ohio State football was recruiting two under-the-radar skill players from Columbus in the weeks leading into national signing day in 2010, with space to add only one to an already crowded roster and the odds favoring Verlon Reed, a high school quarterback with the athleticism to audition at multiple positions upon his arrival on campus.

Reed's competition was a three-star running back with limited hype and only a small handful of scholarship opportunities, a prospect who until the final stretch of his recruitment seemed destined to play in the Mid-American Conference.