Dabo Swinney is right: Coaches opinions don’t matter in College Football Playoff expansion fight

As the ongoing debate around expanding the College Football Playoff intensifies, with the ACC and Big 12 prepared to publicly endorse a 24-team format, the pressure is mounting on the SEC to change its thinking.

But, as the conversation deepens and opinions flow, the opinions of the head coaches who can garner headlines across college football are just that in this era of college football: opinions.

In the upcoming days, you will start to see a more vocal outcry from conferences like the Big 12 and ACC for an expanded playoff.