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The statistics that matter to Pac-12 coaches

The only statistic that matters in football is winning.

But everyone has seen it before -- in a news conference or after a game, a coach gets handed the box score (and he already knows who won and who lost) and his eyes dart to one or maybe two different stat lines on the page.

So, what's that coach looking at?

We asked several Pac-12 coaches.

"You start from the turnover margin, see what we did there," Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said. "That, to me is the most important stat other than the final score and the most indicative stat as far as correlating to winning and losing.