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

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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. In reality, this is all part of the plan, as the ACC wraps up its spring meetings in Florida this week.

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It's the continued pressure that many within conferences outside of the SEC are hoping sways the opinion of those who have Greg Sankey representing them on the biggest stage.

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey speaks with the media during SEC Media Days at the Grand Bohemian Hotel. (Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images)

The problem for others is that the SEC commissioner, along with some of those he represents, are sticking with a proposed 16-team format at the moment, and they split the majority power with the Big Ten over future expansion.

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"We’re trying to inform that with research. We’ve done that, from our perspective, with 16," Sankey told reporters this week about the discussion around