DAYTON -- The University of Dayton football team takes to the skies Saturday, flying to Poughkeepsie, N.Y. to visit the Marist Red Foxes.  Game time is 1:00 p.m. ET.

Dayton, is 2-2, and 1-0 in the Pioneer Football League after last week's 42-21 win over previously unbeaten Davidson.  Marist is looking for its first win of the season.  The Red Foxes are 0-3 overall, and 0-1 after falling at Stetson 19-14 last Saturday.

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

Tucker Yinger ran for more than 100 yards in the first three games this season. He was held to 80 yards in the Davidson win, but gained 69 of those in the game's decisive third quarter.  He needs 66 yards to move into second place on UD's career rushing list.

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 469 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 115-37 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 81-35.  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).

The Flyers return home on Saturday, Oct. 6 when they face Valparaiso.  The Valpo game is UD's annual Football Alumni Game.  The Flyers' 1978 NCAA Division III playoff team, Dayton's first team to reach the playoffs, will be the guests of honor.  Kickoff is 1 p.m. ET.