Duke defense setting division-title pace, if offense can catch up

Duke safety Jeremy Cash (16) trips up Georgia Tech quarterback Justin Thomas (5) behind the line of scrimmage in the first half of play.Duke defenders linebacker's Tinashe Bere (43), and Dwayne Norman (40) stop Georgia Tech's Patrick Skov (7) in a crucial play on fourth-and-short late in the fourth quarter. DURHAM

Jeremy Cash made big play after big play on the field Saturday, then saved his biggest statement for afterward.

“Ultimately, the road to the Coastal goes through Durham,” the Duke safety proclaimed, and he was half right.

Duke's defense is good enough to win the division, but it's still anyone's guess about the offense – which is the inverse of when Duke actually won the division two…