Clemson coach Dabo Swinney made full use of his "College Football Pregame Show" appearance Saturday morning on CBS Sports HQ as he laid out his team's case for the College Football Playoff. When asked why the Tigers aren't in the same at-large conversation as other Power Four schools,

Miami and Boise State round out the current top-12 teams across the sport, and Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney had thoughts about the current standing of the playoffs. He made the case for the ACC, and Clemson in particular, to have more representation as a top program.

“We’ve scheduled tough. All you can do is play the schedule that you have,” said Swinney. “It is what it is, but you know, we basically have a SEC-Big Ten invitational, that’s really what we got in college football right now.” “We basically have an SEC-Big Ten invitational” in the College Football Playoff.