DAYTON -- The University of Dayton football team returns home this week, playing Drake on Saturday.  

Dayton is 3-4 overall and 2-2 in the Pioneer Football League.  Drake is 3-2 overall and 2-1 in the PFL.  

Both teams are coming off two-point losses.  The Flyers fell 36-34 at San Diego, while the Bulldogs lost to Stetson 23-21 at home.  

Flyer QB Jack Cook had quite a week last week.  On Thursday, the redshirt freshman was named to the watch list of the STATS Jerry Rice Award, which goes to the top FCS freshman.  On Saturday, he set a UD record with 432 yards passing.  And on Monday he was named the STATS FCS Freshman of the Week.

The Flyers entered the season with the fourth-best winning percentage (.744, 148-51) in FCS football since 2000 AND have produced the most football Academic All-Americans (29) at any level of competition in the same time frame.  The top five in winning percentage are Harvard (.782), North Dakota State (.778), Montana (.753), Dayton (.744), and San Diego (.741).

UD has not been shut out in a school-record 472 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.

The Pioneer Football League is in its 26th 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 116-39 record is the best in PFL history.   The Flyers' 12 league championships are three more than any other PFL team.  

Rick Chamberlin is now in his 11th season in charge of the Flyer football program. His record is 82-37.  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). 

UD's winning percentage with Rick Chamberlin involved in some capacity is .769, without him it is a still-respectable .562. Chamberlin is the winningest coach in Pioneer Football League history, with 61 wins. No other PFL coaches have 50 league wins.

Redshirt senior running back Tucker Yinger has 3,022 career yards.  He is the 12th player in PFL history to reach 3,000 career yards, and the fourth active FCS player.  He is second in career rushing at UD, behind only his former teammate Connor Kacsor, who ran for 3,581 yards from 2012 to 2015.

After this week, Dayton takes the short drive to Indianapolis to play at Butler on Oct. 27.  UD's next game is Nov. 10 when the Flyers play Morehead State on Senior Day.  Dayton is off on Nov. 3.