First place in the Pioneer Football League will be on the line in Morehead, Ky. on Saturday, Nov. 7 when the University of Dayton football Flyers take on Morehead State. 

Dayton is 8-0 on the year and 5-0 in the PFL.  Morehead is 5-3 overall, and one of two teams right behind UD in the league at 4-1 (San Diego is the other). 

Game time is 1 p.m. ET.  The game can be seen on DaytonFlyers.com and heard on WHIO Radio.

Dayton is one of three FCS teams still undefeated this season.  UD has won 10 straight games going back to 2014.  MSU has won six straight home games going back to last year. 

The Flyers jumped out to a 24-0 halftime lead en route to last week's 31-14 win over Jacksonville.  Morehead had a much more thrilling contest, edging Drake 38-35 in 3 OT.

The Flyers have come from behind in the second half in five of their eight wins.

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

The Flyers are 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.

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 439 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 15-5, and has won the last six meetings.   
• Last year in Dayton, the Flyers prevailed 41-7 on Oct. 18.  UD led 28-0 at halftime, and four of UD's six TD's were runs longer than 50 yards.
• Two seasons ago at Jayne Stadium, the Flyers won 42-14 on Oct. 26.  Dayton broke open a 14-14 game with 28 unanswered points in the final 21 minutes of play.  Those four TD plays covered a combined 11 yards.

SCOUTING THE EAGLES
• Morehead State enters the game with one of the most prolific offense in the PFL.
• MSU is second in scoring offense (29.8, behind San Diego), total offense (419.5, behind Jacksonville) and passing offense (309.2, behind Jacksonville).
• Quarterback Austin Gahafer is third nationally in completions per game (25.6), and also leads the PFL in passing yards per game (289.9)
• Gahafer left Saturday's Drake win in the fourth quarter with an injury, and all his backup, Jack Sherry did is complete six of nine passes for 95 yards and two TD's. 
• Defensively, MSU leads the PFL in turnover margin (+10).

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 101-31 record 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 63-23.
• 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 357 of UD's 657 wins – 26 as a player, 268 as an assistant coach, and 63 as a head coach.  He has also been a part of 458 of UD's 1,043 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.

SURGING
• Redshirt freshman Nick Surges leads the Flyers in TFL (8.0), and is second in sacks (3.0) and QB hurries (4).
• He had five hits, two sacks, 2.5 TFL and a forced fumble in the Butler win.
• Against Jacksonville, he had three hits (two solo), a fumble recovery, a pass batted down, a QBH and a TFL.
• Even though he is not a starter, he has demonstrated he is a playmaker.  His sack at RMU ended the game.  In the Butler win, he forced the fumble that set up UD's game-winning TD, and his sack on the Bulldog's last possession moved them out of makeable and potential game-tying field goal range.

THE PEARL
• True sophomore corner Christian Searles is second in punt return average (11.5), behind Jacksonville's Terrance Bryant (15.1).
• Searles is second in interceptions (3) third on the team in hits (39), and PBU (4). 
• He is the shortest player on the team, and one of the lightest.  He is also the only Flyer with two "Hammer Hit of the Week" awards this season.

UP NEXT
• The Flyers are back home Nov. 14 to take on Marist on Senior Day., at 1 p.m. ET.