NEW ORLEANS — There are lot of things to watch in tonight’s Sugar Bowl matchup between No. 1 Clemson and fourth-ranked Alabama.

How will Kelly Bryant handle playing on the big stage in the College Football Playoff Semifinal? Will Jalen Hurts and the Crimson Tide offense be able to move the ball with any consistency against Clemson’s vaunted defense?

And finally, will Alabama be able to stop Clemson wide receiver Hunter Renfrow? From what has been heard out of the Alabama press conferences and media day this past week, stopping Renfrow is at the forefront of every Alabama defender’s mind, and with good reason.

Renfrow has owned the Crimson Tide secondary the last two years in the national championship games. He has combined to score four touchdowns on 17 catches for 182 yards. When asked about Bryant and trying to stop him because of his unique running ability, Alabama safety Minkah Fitzpatrick said they first have to find a way to stop Renfrow and take away that option.

Fitzpatrick, who has been involved in three of Renfrow’s four touchdowns against them, says he has not watched much of last year’s national championship game as Renfrow had a career-high 10 catches for 94 yards and two touchdowns, including the two-yard game-winner with one second to play in the game.

“He does his job. When the ball is thrown his way, he catches it and makes people miss,” Fitzpatrick said. “He can deceive you with his quickness. And he can make you — well, covering him, he can deceive you with his quickness. And he is really shifting on the field. He is really sure in his hands.

“Like I said earlier, he just does his job. He is a great receiver. And I think we just have to do our job as secondary or as a defense, applying pressure to the quarterback and applying pressure to him. And that’s about it. We just have to do our job.”

But as Fitzpatrick said, even when the Tide or any team has done their job against Renfrow, the former walk-on still finds a way to get open.

“Hunter Renfrow is a pain in the you-know-what in terms of nothing different from last year to this year,” Alabama head coach Nick Saban said. “The guy is very quick, very instinctive as a player, knows how to get open, makes the right decisions, really kind of a go-to guy for them on third down, especially in the third and 4 to 6, 7 range. He is so very, very crafty, very quick, but very smart in terms of how he plays.

“He’s been, really, a consistent, effective player for them. And I think, when I made the statement earlier about how they utilize their personnel — to me, receiver core is a little bit like a basketball team. You got to have a point guard; you got to have a shooting guard; you got to have a power forward. I think that’s one of the things that they do really well with their wide receiver core in terms of how they utilize their guys. And they utilize him extremely well. And he’s very effective at how he does what they ask him to do.”

And he just makes Alabama so frustrated.