DAYTON -- A pair of unbeatens will face off Saturday in University of Dayton football's 2015 home opener.  Dayton (1-0) will host Duquesne (2-0) at Welcome Stadium in a 1 p.m. ET kickoff.  Because of an expected large crowd, fans are reminded that gates to the Welcome Stadium parking lots will not open until 11 a.m. ET. Saturday's game will be televised regionally on Time Warner Cable SportsChannel Ohio. Due to existing television contractual agreements, Saturday's video stream is geoblocked in the state of Ohio. Outside of Ohio, fans are able to watch the game live for free via DaytonFlyers.com.

The Flyers knocked off Robert Morris 27-24 behind great games by team captains Chris Beaschler (career-high 18 tackles), Danny Leach (93-yd. int return, PFL Defensive Player of the Week) and Cory Stuart (team-high five catches for 91 yards and a TD).

Duquesne is 2-0, and is coming off it first-ever win at Bucknell.  The Dukes have not trailed this season and have not allowed any points until the fourth quarter in their first two games.

The Flyers were picked to finish second in the Pioneer Football League in this year's poll of the league's coaches.  This is the 23nd season of the PFL.  UD's 11 titles are the most in league history.

Dayton finished 8-3 overall and 6-2 in the PFL in 2014.  The Flyers finished tied for second in the Pioneer Football League and had their 37th winning season in the last 38 years last year. 

Rick Chamberlin is in his eighth season as UD's head coach and returns 14 starters (seven offense, six defense, one specialist) from last year.

Dayton is led by senior running back Connor Kacsor, who is UD's career record holder in rushing yardage.  A preseason All-American, Kacsor was the 2014 PFL Offensive Player of the Year after gaining 1,547 yards and scoring 17 TD's. 

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 432 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
• The football relationship between Dayton and Duquesne dates back to 1920.
• Duquesne won the first meeting, Dayton the next three contests in 1923, 1924 and, after a 77-year hiatus, the series resumed in 2001.
• The Dukes lead the series 7-5, and has won three of the last four meetings.
• Duquesne won last year's meeting 33-13 behind a 20-point second quarter in Pittsburgh on Sept. 13.
• The Flyers won the last game in Dayton 23-20 on Sept. 7, 2013, overcoming a 20-14 halftime deficit.
• Seven of the last eight games have been decided by 10 points or less

SCOUTING THE DUKES
• Duquesne was predicted to finish second in the Northeast Conference.
• Freshman running back P.J. Fulmore has led the Dukes in rushing in both games this season, and was named the NEC Rookie of the Week for his 87 yards (11 carries, 7.9 avg.) vs. Bucknell.
• Duquesne has a dynamic passing attack led by three-year starting quarterback Dillon Buechel.  The junior co-captain is 27 of 44 (.614) for 331 yards and four TD's, with no interceptions and no sacks. The TD's have gone to four different receivers.

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 96-31 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).

UP NEXT
• Dayton remains home and completes the non-conference schedule on Sept. 26 when Kennesaw State visits Welcome Stadium. 
• KSU is in its very first year of football and the Owls have scored 114 points in the first two games (and yes, they were both wins).
• Game time is 6 p.m. ET.
• It is the first of two night games in 2015.
• Kennesaw is also UD's "Pink" game, promoting Breast Cancer Awareness.