SCOTTSDALE, AZ – Welcome to the Painted Orange Desert.
The real Painted Desert sits just under four hours from the Phoenix metropolitan area, but there’s no doubt that Clemson fans have outnumbered Alabama fans in the days leading up to today’s College Football Playoff National Championship.
Clemson flags have been seen all over Phoenix and the surrounding area and there’s no doubt that there is a certain buzz that surrounds this game. After all, it’s the National Championship. If you can’t get excited about this one, you just aren’t a college football fan.
We took a little time off Saturday afternoon and drove up to Sedona, and at one of the first stops a couple pulls into the space next to us with a car bedecked in Tiger paws.