Would Syracuse fare better if it was in ACC Coastal?

Syracuse is one of the more difficult places to win among Power 5 conference schools. History has proven as much -- the school has five winning seasons in football since 2000.

Joining the ACC's toughest division seemingly made that task even harder. The Orange are coming off back-to-back losing seasons and have watched Florida State and Clemson separate themselves further over the last three years. But how much harder is it to win in the Atlantic versus the more wide-open Coastal?

To answer that question, I asked the ESPN Stats & Information team to run a few simulations using Syracuse and Pittsburgh, the two former Big East teams that entered the ACC in 2013. Did Pittsburgh get the luck of…