Ohio State defensive end Tyreke Smith pulled into the parking lot at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center a week before the College Football Playoff championship game in January when he learned some disappointing news. A team trainer called. He had tested positive for the coronavirus, a development that would cause him to miss the title game. “I’m like, ‘For real?’” Smith said, recalling the sequence last week. “I’m like, ‘Man, nah. You can’t be right.’ And it was.” Positive COVID test is latest setback in Tyreke Smith’s Buckeyes career Initially, Smith had difficulty in coming to terms with his positive test. He felt no symptoms of the virus, leaving him in disbelief. But he soon sought to maintain perspective ahead of the matchup with Alabama. “I didn’t want to get mad,” Smith said. “I couldn’t do anything about it. I just told my teammates to go out there and play…
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