DAYTON -- For the second straight week, a pair of unbeatens will face off Saturday in the University of Dayton football team's final non-conference game of the 2015 season.
 
Dayton (2-0) is undefeated in 2015 after a pair of wins against NEC foes Robert Morris and Duquesne.  Saturday's foe, Kennesaw State (3-0), is undefeated in forever as this is the very first season of football on KSU campus.
 
Saturday's kickoff at Welcome Stadium is 6 p.m. ET.  It is the first of two night games this year.
 
The Flyers knocked off Duquesne 24-13 on Sept. 19 behind PFL Player of the Week performances by Connor Kacsor (244 yards, 3 TD's) and Cameron Stubbs (2 int., 6 tackles).
 
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 23rd 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 2014.
 
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 with 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 433 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
• This is the first meeting between Dayton and Kennesaw State.
• But this is not the first meeting between Dayton and a school from Georgia.  The Flyers dropped games against Oglethorpe in 1929 and 1930.
• The Stormy Petrels also defeated schools like Clemson, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech and Wake Forest during that time.
• The school dropped football at the start of WWII and has not brought it back to campus.
• It may be too late, but at the risk of providing too much information, the Stormy Petrel (pronounced PEA-trell) is a type of shore bird.
 
SCOUTING THE OWLS
• Kennesaw State is one of four schools beginning or re-starting football this season, and is the only one with a win at this point.
• The Owls start three seniors, seven juniors, one sophomore, 11 redshirt freshmen and one true freshman.
• Junior DB Derrick Farrow was the Big South Defensive Player of the Week after week two, with five tackles and three forced fumbles.
• Redshirt junior QB Trey White is the team's leading rusher (48 carries, 257 yds. 5.4 avg., 4 TD).  He is also 13 of 25 passing (.520) for 352 yards and two scores, with one interception.
 
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).

THE MAN AT THE TOP
• Rick Chamberlin is now in his eighth season in charge of the Flyer football program. His record is 57-23.
• 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 351 of UD's 651 wins – 26 as a player, 268 as an assistant coach, and 57 as a head coach.  He has also been a part of 452 of UD's 1,037 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.

UP NEXT
• Dayton opens PFL play at Stetson next Saturday, Oct. 3.  Kickoff is at 1 p.m. ET.
• The Flyers return home to take on PFL preseason favorite San Diego on Oct. 10.  That game is UD's Alumni Game, and is also Military Appreciation Day.