Winning national title means pressuring Tagovailoa

SANTA JOSE, Calif. — If Clemson wants to win the national championship on Monday it has to get pressure on Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.

When given time, Tagovailoa has ripped apart defenses all season. The Maxwell and Walter Camp Award winner, as college football’s best player, has completed 69.5 percent of his passes this year for 3,671 yards and 41 touchdowns. Even more amazing, he has thrown just four interceptions in 321 attempts.

“It’s a great challenge,” defensive coordinator Brent Venables said. “Ask everybody else that’s played him. We’ve just got to play well collectively and try to limit the explosiveness of what they do and play with discipline and rush lanes and things of…