There are four teams — and thus four coaches — in the College Football Playoff and obviously each one feels enormous pressure to win two games and capture the national title.
Still, there is pressure and then there is pressure. Kirby Smart won it all a year ago, delivering Georgia its first national championship in four decades. He then lost 15 players to the NFL draft, and returned to the playoffs anyway.
Sonny Dykes is in his first year at TCU, but orchestrated a thrilling 12-1 season to make the Horned Frogs the first school from his state (not Texas, not Texas A&M) to reach the playoff.