We all know that Duke won the Coastal Division in 2013. But should that have ever happened? The advanced stats say no, and in fact, it should not have even been close.

Athlon Sports is using advanced stats in their preview this year. According to Athlon, there are five key factors to winning football games.

1: Field position. This is simply average starting field position for a team and their opponents.

2: Finishing drives: Points per trip inside the opponent’s 40, and vice versa.

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