But what are those in the thick of the battle saying about the race for a spot in the Championship?
Scroll down and click through the pages as we round-up how Sunderland and their rivals are viewing the promotion race as we enter the final few weeks of a dramatic season:
1. Coventry City - Mark Robins
“We have still got to play Oxford and Burton here, still got to go to Gillingham and if you start looking too far ahead you can come unstuck. We won’t be doing anything different, just taking it game by game and seeing if we can come up with the answers.” Photo: Lewis Storey
2. Rotherham United - Paul Warne
“I do not want to go up in the play-offs, I do not want to go up in second, I want us to go up as champions if we can.” Photo: George Wood
3. Portsmouth - Kenny Jackett
“The big teams do put the runs in at the end, the sides who do it will. It will be great and there is the opportunity. We have to see that. It’s competitive and there’s a lot of sides who can do it - two points a game.” Photo: Lewis Storey
4. Wycombe Wanderers - Gareth Ainsworth
“Other teams around us in this league are results fearful. One defeat could define their season and how they go into the next game, and two defeats could be a catastrophe.We know exactly what we need to and exactly how we’re going to approach it.” Photo: Catherine Ivill