DAYTON -- Plenty will be at stake on Saturday, Oct. 24 when the University of Dayton football Flyers host Butler.  Dayton will look to improve to 7-0 for the first time in 14 years, and remain alone in first place in the Pioneer Football League.  The Flyers will also have the chance to become the first team to reach 100 PFL wins. 

Game time is 6 p.m. ET.  The game is the final night game of the year for UD.  It can be seen on DaytonFlyers.com and heard on WHIO Radio.

Dayton is one of seven FCS teams still undefeated at 6-0, and is 3-0 in the PFL.  Butler is 4-2 overall and 2-1 in the PFL.

UD won its 99th PFL game with a 44-14 win at Valparaiso.  The Flyers dominated the second half with 27 points by the offense and four turnovers by the defense.

Dayton also clinched its 38th winning season in the last 39 years.

Dayton is without All-American running back Connor Kacsor, who suffered a knee injury in practice on Oct. 8 and is out for the rest of the season.  Kacsor concludes his career with a Dayton record 3,543 yards rushing and 38 TD's.

This is the 23rd season of the PFL.  UD's 11 titles to date are the most in PFL history, counting ties.  San Diego and Drake are next with six each.

Dayton finished 8-3 overall and 6-2 in the PFL in 2014.  The Flyers finished tied for second in the Pioneer Football League.

GOOD NEWS WORTH REPEATING
The Flyers enter the season with the fourth-best winning percentage (.738, 124-41) in FCS football since 2000 AND have produced the most football Academic All-Americans (22) at any level of competition in the same time frame.  The top five in winning percentage are North Dakota State (.845), Harvard (.799), Montana (.775), Dayton (.738), and San Diego (.698).

STREAKING
UD has not been shut out in a school-record 437 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 27-12-1. 
• Dayton's 21-14 win in Indianapolis last year on Nov. 15, broke a three-game Butler winning streak in the series. 
• After allowing nearly 200 yards in the first half, the Dayton defense allowed just 85 yards in the second half. 
• UD permitted Butler to run just one play in Dayton territory.

SCOUTING THE BULLDOGS
• Butler leads the PFL in scoring, averaging 30.5 points a game.
• The Bulldogs are led on offense by dual-threat redshirt senior quarterback Matt Shiltz.  Through the air, Shiltz has completed 133 of 192 passes (.592) for 1,329 yards and 11 touchdowns.  On the ground, he is Butler's leading rusher with 454 yards (8.1 avg.) with six TD's.
• Backup wide receiver Guy DiBalsamo, one of four 'Dog receivers with at least 12 catches, leads the PFL in yards per catch (19.4).
• Linebacker Sean Horan leads the team in tackles (29), TFL (6.0) and QB hurries (3).
• As a team, Butler leads the PFL in kickoff return average (26.9 yards per return).

PFL POWER
• The Pioneer Football League is in its 23rd season.  The original (and now the only) Division I strictly need-based football league began with charter members Butler, Dayton, Drake, Evansville, San Diego and Valparaiso. 
• UD's 99-31 PFL mark is the best in PFL history.

600 CLUB
• The Flyers were the 11th NCAA FCS team (and the first west of the Alleghenies) to win 600 games in its football history in 2008.
• The 16 members of the club, heading into the 2015 season are: Yale (884), Harvard (848), Penn (830), Princeton (804), Dartmouth (676), Delaware (674), Lehigh (671), North Dakota State (671), Lafayette (669), Dayton (649), Northern Iowa (641), Cornell (633), North Dakota (625), Colgate (625), Holy Cross (613) and Brown (601).
• Of the 600 Club members, Dayton has played the fewest seasons (106, nine fewer than Northern Iowa's 115).
• Drake needs one more win to be the latest team to join the club.

THE MAN AT THE TOP
• Rick Chamberlin is now in his eighth season in charge of the Flyer football program. His record is 61-23.
• He is third all-time in wins at Dayton, behind two members of the College Football Hall of Fame -- Mike Kelly (246 wins) and Harry Baujan (124).
• Chamberlin is also in his 41st season as part of the Flyer football program.  A Flyer All-American linebacker in his playing days, he has been a part of 355 of UD's 655 wins – 26 as a player, 268 as an assistant coach, and 61 as a head coach.  He has also been a part of 456 of UD's 1,041 games.
• The Springfield, Ohio native is the 23rd head football coach since the program began in 1905. He is the first of the 11 modern era coaches to have lettered for the Flyers, and the second to be a graduate of the University of Dayton (Pete Ankney was the first when he coached in 1963 and 1964).
• Chamberlin, 59, had been on the Flyer coaching staff for 29 seasons before being named head coach. First as linebackers coach and then as defensive coordinator, Chamberlin helped mold the Dayton D's reputation for its preparation and execution as a unit. Under Chamberlin's guidance as an assistant and now as a head coach, the Flyers have led the Pioneer Football League in scoring defense in nine of the last 12 seasons.
• A four-year letterwinner (1975-78) for the Flyers, Chamberlin was named to the Football Coaches Association Small College All-America team. He was the third Dayton player to be named a First Team All-American, and was the first defensive player.  He was inducted in to the UD Athletic Hall of Fame in 1989.

KNEE INJURY ENDS KACSOR'S CAREER
• Redshirt senior running back Connor Kacsor suffered a non-contact knee injury in practice on Oct. 8, which ended his season and career. 
• The All-American from Leo, Ind. finished as Dayton's career record holder in rushing yardage with 3,543 yards.
• He is second in FCS football in yards per game this season (151.5 yards per game) and rushed for over 200 yards in two of his four games played.
• Kacsor was twice named PFL Player of the Week in UD's first four games.
• He was fifth in FCS football in rushing yards per game (140.6) in 2014.
• His 1,457 yards in 2014 were the third-best Flyer single-season total, behind Gradlin Pruitt (1,591) and Dave Jones (1,803).
• He was named First Team Preseason All-PFL for the second straight season.
• He has five of the top 10 Flyer single-game rushing performances (Gary Kosins and Davie Jones have two, and Jermaine Bailey has one).
• Kacsor had 16 games of 100+ yard efforts in 34 career games.
• Six of those 16 were for 200 yards or more.

EXCEPTION TO THE RULE
• There are seven teams in FCS football still undefeated, and all but one are quarterbacked by a senior or redshirt senior.
• The exception is Dayton's Alex Jeske, who is a redshirt freshman.

15 ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA NOMINATIONS
• Fifteen Flyer football players were nominated this week for the 2015 CoSIDA Academic All-America Team.
• They are Brett Bass, Chris Beaschler, Jack Crain, Michael Gray, Alex Jeske, Alex Kenner, Danny Leach, Zac Morgan, Ian Palin, Nate Sudnick, Cory Stuart, Shane Toub, Tyler Tumpane, Jimmy Vogel, and Tucker Yinger.

UP NEXT
• Dayton is home for the second straight game, hosting Jacksonville on Oct. 31.
• Entering the weekend, Dayton and Jacksonville are two of the seven FCS teams still undefeated this season.
• Game time is 1 p.m. ET.