DAYTON -- The University of Dayton Flyers finish the non-conference portion of the 2018 football schedule with a trip to Pittsburgh to take on Duquesne.   It is the third consecutive year UD has played its last non-conference game against the Dukes, which is somewhat ironic because the two schools share conference affiliation with each other in all other sports as members of the Pioneer Football League.

Dayton, 1-1, is looking to bounce back after losing at Southeast Missouri 40-21 last week.  Dayton led 21-20 early in the fourth quarter, but the Redhawks put the game away with a pair of 70-yard+ touchdown plays.

Duquesne is the third of three scholarship programs Dayton is playing in the non-conference portion of the schedule.  Robert Morris and Duquesne play in the NEC.  Southeast is a member of the OVC.  Dayton plays in the non-scholarship Pioneer Football League. 

OT Ben Gauthier and DE Nick Surges are the Flyer football captains this year.  Matt Tunnacliffe is UD's special teams captain.

Tucker Yinger has run for more than 100 yards in the first two games this season. Yinger has 13 100-yard games in his career.

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).

Dayton opens the Pioneer Football League schedule on Saturday, Sept. 22 at home against Davidson.  Kickoff is 1 p.m. ET.  The Davidson game is UD's annual Family Weekend game.