DAYTON – The University of Dayton football team, 5-5 overall and 4-3 in the Pioneer Football League, plays its final game of 2018 on the road, heading south to play Jacksonville.  The Dolphins are 2-7 and 1-6.   Game time is 1 p.m. ET.

Saturday's game will be the end of two careers that leave their marks on the Dayton Flyer record book. Punter Sean Smith, a three-time All-PFL selection, will graduate with the best career punting average in UD football history. All that is left is the math.  

Running back Tucker Yinger is 27 yards from Connor Kacsor's Dayton career rushing record of 3,581 yards. Last week, Yinger became the first Flyer to have two 1,000 yard seasons after rushing for 264 yards and three touchdowns.

UD is also going for its 40th winning season in the last 42 years. UD was 5-6 in 2017.  

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 475 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 118-40 record is the best in PFL history. The Flyers' 12 league championships are two more than any other PFL team.