Even when it sounds like coaches are taking a position for the betterment of college football, they usually aren’t. There’s something self-serving in just about every comment from all coaches.

Listening to Clemson coach Dabo Swinney and Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley on Friday, that remained true.

Both coaches were asked about playoff expansion Friday, which seems to be on everybody’s mind these days, and each coach had a different opinion.

“I’d be more back to two, to be honest with you. I’m not a ‘More is better’ guy,” Swinney said according to The State. “I know there’s a huge crowd out there for that, but I think college football is unique, and now all of a sudden it just becomes like everything else when you do that.”

Swinney went as far as to say the College Football Playoff is the reason players have begun skipping bowl games.

“I hate the fact that all of a sudden now it’s not cool to go to the Gator Bowl. Are you kidding me? I don’t like that mindset,” Swinney said. “I think the more you expand, the more that becomes (the norm). I know that falls on a lot of deaf ears. It doesn’t mean I’m right. That’s just my opinion. I’m not telling anybody else they’re wrong. They can have the opinion whatever they want to have. But I love the passion of college football, and I think the more you expand the less the season matters.”

Riley, though, is a ‘more’ guy.

“I think everybody would like to see more,” Riley said according to Newsok.com. “I think that’s pretty universal. I think the bigger question in our game becomes how do you do it?

“Sure, I think everybody else would love to see a few more teams with a chance. I do especially think it is tough – and we’ve been, you know, two of the last three years it’s worked out for us, we did have a year in 2016 where we were our conference champions but didn’t get in the playoff. I would like to see every major conference champion in.”

It’s not a surprise that either of these coaches said what they said Friday. Swinney and Clemson doesn’t need an expanded playoff in order to win the National Championship, as they have made the College Football Playoff each of the last four years. Although it’s still a small sample size, the ACC has never missed the Playoff during its five years of existence.

Meanwhile, the Big 12 has missed out multiple times. This year, despite going 12-1 and avenging its only loss of the season against Texas in the conference championship game, many analysts still argued Oklahoma didn’t deserve a Top 4 bid over Georgia.

Even though the Sooners have made the Playoff three of the last four years, Riley has to realize an expanded field and a guaranteed spot for the Big 12 is a much better thing for his program.