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DAYTON -- The University of Dayton football team returns home on Saturday, Nov. 1 when the Valparaiso Crusaders come to town.  Game time at Welcome Stadium is 1 p.m. ET.

Dayton is 5-2 on the season and 3-1 in the Pioneer Football League, while Valparaiso is 2-6 and 0-4 in the PFL. 

Both teams are coming off tough losses.  The Flyers fell 40-29 at San Diego in a game that featured six lead changes,  VU's loss at Morehead State's only lead change happened with 17 seconds to go in the game when Morehead edged Valparaiso 48-47.

STREAKING
UD has not been shut out in a school-record 427 straight games, the best such active string in all of college football. The last team to shut out the Flyers was Marshall, 9-0, on Oct. 16, 1976. That is also the all-time FCS record.

SERIES STUFF
• Dayton leads the series 21-2, and has won the last 10 meetings.  UD won 45-20 last year at Valparaiso on Nov. 16 in the 2013 season finale. 
• The Flyers shutout Valpo 45-0 in the last meeting in Dayton on Oct. 20, 2012. 
• Dayton is 11-1 all-time at Welcome Stadium.

SCOUTING THE CRUSADERS
• First-year coach Dave Cecchini brings a strong offensive background to Valparaiso.  An All-American wide receiver at Lehigh, he had successful coaching stops at Harvard, The Citadel and his alma mater.
• Valpo has outscored its opponents in the first (+6) and third (+17) quarters this season, but has been outscored by a combined 66 points in the second and fourth.
• Freshman DB Jarrett Morgan has blocked four kicks this season (all in the last four games).
• Senior QB Ben Lehman is 123 of 216 passing (.569) for 1,467 yards and eight TD's.

GROUND GAINER
• Senior Connor Kacsor became the seventh UD player to reach 1,000 yards in a season with 115 yards at San Diego. 
• Kacsor's 1,073 yards so far in 2014 is the fifth-best Flyer single-season total, behind Gary Kosins (1,172), Jermaine Bailey (1,373), Gradlin Pruitt (1,591) and Dave Jones (1,803).
• Kacsor leads the PFL and is second in FCS in rushing per game (153.3).
• He is the only player in FCS this season with three "top twenty" rushing performances -- the year's best 301 yards against Georgetown, the tenth-best effort of 232 yards vs Morehead State, and the 16th best of 213 at Davidson.
• He now has four of the eight Flyer single-game rushing performances of 200 yards or more. (Gary Kosins has two, Dave Jones has one and Jermaine Bailey has one).
• His career 6.5 yards-per-carry average (379 att., 2,463 yds.) is the best in UD history.

UP NEXT
Dayton is back home on consecutive weekends for the only time this season.  The Flyers will play Drake on Saturday, Nov. 8.  Kickoff IS at 1 p.m. ET.