USA TODAY Sports’ Paul Myerberg looks ahead to the New Year’s Eve playoff game between Clemson and Ohio State. USA TODAY Sports Ohio State linebacker Raekwon McMillan.(Photo: Michael Chow, The Arizona Republic-USA TODAY S) PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. — One day during the open recruiting period last spring, Clemson co-offensive coordinator Jeff Scott was visiting a high school player’s campus in New Jersey and found himself talking to Ohio State wide receivers coach Zach Smith, who was there as well. Scott saw Smith the next day, too, at another player’s high school. In Tennessee. “So I said, ‘Hey, I guess we’re on the right guys here,’ ” Scott recalled this week as their teams prepared for the Fiesta Bowl College Football Playoff semifinal. “ ‘ We could probably travel together and save somebody some money.’ ” Clemson and Ohio State will meet in the Fiesta Bowl on Saturday in one College Football…
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