DAYTON -- The University of Dayton Flyers will go back on the road Saturday when they travel to Morehead, Ky. to take on the Morehead State Eagles.  

Senior wideout Ryan Skibinski is now second all-time in career receptions.  His team-high seven catches in last Saturday's game with San Diego gave him 134.  No Dayton wideout has caught more.  Skibinski is behind TE and teammate Adam Trautman, who has 157.

Safety Brandon Easterling continues to lead FCS football in tackles (13.0 per game), and now leads in solo tackles (7.7) and fumbles recovered (3).  He has come up with an opponent turnover in four consecutive games.

Dayton is 4-3 overall, and 2-2 in the PFL.  Morehead is 4-4, and 2-2 in the PFL.

GOOD NEWS WORTH REPEATING
The Flyers entered the season with the fifth-best winning percentage (.733, 154-56) in FCS football since 2000 AND have produced the most football Academic All-Americans (31) at any level of competition in the same time frame.  The top five in winning percentage are North Dakota State (.792), Harvard (.772), Montana (.744), San Diego (.742) and Dayton (.733). 

STREAKING
UD has not been shut out in a school-record 483 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.

PFL POWER
• The Pioneer Football League is in its 27th 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 121-42 record is the best in PFL history. 
• The Flyers' 12 league championships are more than any other PFL team.  

THE MAN AT THE TOP
• Rick Chamberlin is now in his 12th season in charge of Flyer football. His record is 89-41.
• He is third all-time in wins at UD, behind two College Football Hall of Fame members-- Mike Kelly (246 wins) and Harry Baujan (124).
• After coaching the Flyers to the FCS playoffs in 2015, Chamberlin was named the 2015 AFCA District Coach of the Year and the PFL Coach of the Year.  He was the school's first AFCA District Coach of the Year, and his PFL honor was the ninth for a Dayton coach.
• Chamberlin is also in his 45th season as part of the Flyer football program.  A Flyer All-American linebacker in his playing days, he has been a part of 383 of UD's 683 wins – 26 as a player, 268 as an assistant coach, and 89 as a head coach.  He has also been a part of 500 of UD's 1,034 games. 

THE MAN AT THE TOP IN THE PFL
• Rick Chamberlin is the winningest coach in Pioneer Football League history, with 66 wins. 
• No other PFL coaches have 60 league wins. 

TRAUT FISHING IN AMERICA
• Adam Trautman broke two Flyer records in the Jacksonville win and added a third the next week at Valparaiso.
• His first reception vs. JU was a 17-yard touchdown from quarterback Jack Cook that gave Trautman sole possession of the Dayton career receptions record.  Trautman entered the game tied with Bill Franks for 133 receptions.  Interestingly, Jacksonville was UD's annual Alumni Game and Franks was in attendance.  Trautman currently has 157.
• The Flyer tight end's final catch of the day was a 34-yard catch-and-run in the second quarter that was his fourth TD of the Jacksonville game, giving him the Flyer single-game record for touchdown receptions.  It was also the last time he was targeted with a pass, as UD led 35-14 at halftime and threw just three passes in the second half. For the day, he had six catches for 107 yards.
• At Valparaiso, his three TD catches lifted him to 26 receiving scores, breaking the Dayton record.  He now has 28.
• His 11 touchdown catches are also a Flyer single-season record.
• For the season, Trautman has 49 receptions for 650 yards (13.3 yards per catch) and 11 touchdowns.  He leads the PFL in receiving TDs (11), and is tied for first in receptions per game (7.0).  He is also second in yards per game (92.5) and scoring (9.4).  
• In FCS football, he is the top-ranked tight end in all four categories.  Overall, he is tied for first, 10th, 15th and 14th.

UP AND...
• Adam Trautman was named a Preseason All-America Tight End by two different media outlets this year.  Phil Steele's College Football has him on the second team, while STATS has him on the third team.  
• STATS has also named him to the Walter Payton Award Watch List (the Payton Award goes to the top FCS offensive player).
• Phil Steele's College Football projects him to be the PFL Offensive Player of the Year. 
• He opened 2019 with a career-high 11 catches (third-best ever for UD) for 132 yards at Indiana State.
• His team-leading 49 catches this year are 17 more than anyone else on the team.
• Last year, Trautman led UD in receptions (41) and TD catches (9).  He had a 14.7 yards per catch average.  
• In 2017, he led Dayton in receptions with 43 (12.5 yards per catch).
• He was third on the team in receptions with 24 (9.9 avg.) in 2016.
• Those 24 catches were more than the previous freshman record (18), but Ryan Skibinski was in the process of setting a new record with 40.
• Trautman lined up at tight end, slot receiver, flanker and even as a wildcat QB in 2016.
• His Elk Rapids (Michigan) high school team had 18 players on it his junior year, and 21 in his senior season.

RECORD COOK
• Jack Cook joined in on the record parade in the Jacksonville win, throwing for a Dayton record six TD's.
• Cook was 13 of 16 passing for 198 yards in the Jacksonville win.  His passer efficiency rating was a remarkable 308.95 (roughly double what a normal "solid" rating would be).  Both the rating and touchdowns are the second-most this season in FCS football.
• He was the CFPA FCS Performer of the Week.
• Records are nothing new for Cook.  He had two record-breaking days last season.  At San Diego, Cook threw for a UD-record 432 yards (29 of 40, .725) and had a hand in all five Flyer TD's (4 passing, 1 rushing).  
• At Butler, he tied his current position coach, Kevin Hoyng, for the then-UD record for touchdown passes in a game (5).  Cook completed 16 of 19 passes for 254 yards.

COOKIN'
• Jack Cook was 21 of 29 passing (.724), for 251 yards and two TDs in the win over 14th-ranked Indiana State.  He also ran 13 times for 52 yards and two more scores.  
• With the score tied in the fourth quarter, Cook engineered a 10-play, 85-yard drive for the winning touchdown.  He completed all four of his passes on the drive for 48 yards. Each of his runs in the drive resulted in a first down.
• He was named the PFL Player of the Week.
• For the season, Cook is 138 of 225 passing (.613) for 1,863 yards and 23 touchdowns.
• Among active FCS quarterbacks, Cook is second in career passing efficiency (157.97), behind Sac State's Kevin Thomson (158.91). 

JACKED UP
• Redshirt sophomore quarterback Jack Cook was named to the HERO Sports FCS Freshman All-America Team and was also the Pioneer Football League's Freshman Offensive Player of the Year in 2018.
• He was thrust into the starting quarterback role after redshirt senior and four-year starter Alex Jeske tore his ACL in the first quarter of the season's first game. Cook's first two starts came against teams that not only reached the FCS playoffs last season, but they both won their first-round game.
 • Cook led all FCS freshmen in passing efficiency (155.5, 8th overall) and was ranked third among all FCS freshmen in passing yardage (2,421) and passing touchdowns (20).
• He was 170 of 280 passing (.607) for 2,421 yards and 20 touchdowns (with just two interceptions) for the year.  Both of his interceptions were in late-game desperation downfield situations.  The yardage was the second-best single-season mark in UD history, and the passing TD's were third.
• Cook was also Dayton's second-leading rusher, with 421 net yards on 91 attempts. (4.6 avg.).  He ran for eight touchdowns.
• In the PFL, Cook was fourth in total offense per game (258.5).  The next closest freshman was Stetson RB Jareem Westcott at 78.2.   Cook was also fifth in passing yards (220.2) behind then-seniors Anthony Lawrence of USD, Colin McGovern of Stetson, Grant Kraemer of Drake and Will Marty of Butler.
• He is on the 2019 College Football Performance FCS Performer of the Year Award Watch List.

1-2 PUNCH 
• Both Adam Trautman and Ryan Skibinski are 1-2 career receptions at Dayton.
• Bill Franks entered the year with sole possession of the record of 133 catches from 1988-91.  
• Trautman now has it, with 157.
• Skibinski has 134. 
• (Full disclosure, the title of this note is not accurate.  While Adam Trautman is the tallest player on the team, Ryan Skibinski is nowhere close to being the shortest player.)

TO SERVE AND PROTECT
• The Dayton offensive line is eighth in FCS for TFLs allowed (4.1 per game).  
• The Flyer O-line has allowed nine sacks in 2019. 
• Offensive guard Michael Niese was UD's Offensive Player of the Week at RMU and USD.
• Offensive tackle Justin Karem was Offensive Player of the Week at Valparaiso.

CHISHOLM TRAIL
• Jake Chisholm leads the PFL in all-purpose yardage (175.5) and is second nationally. 
• He averages 25.0 yards per kick return.  That is fifth in the PFL.
• He returned four kickoffs with a 36.2 yard average at Indiana State.  He also had seven carries for 43 yards at ISU.
• Chisholm's 97-yard TD return in the Duquesne game was Dayton's first since Cameron Stubbs' 94-yard return against Marist in 2016, and UD's longest since Gary Hunter's 100-yard return in 2012.
• He was named PFL Special Teams Player of the Week after Duquesne. He also had six carries for 34 yards and caught a TD pass.
• He had his first career 100-yard rushing game against Jacksonville with 101 yards on just 10 carries (79 in the second half).
• In his first career start against San Diego, he had career highs in yards (117) and carries (17), with four receptions for 65 yards.
• For the season, he has 406 yards on 56 attempts (team-high 7.2 yards per carry).  He is second on the team and 10th the PFL in rushing.  His 7.2 average is best among PFL rushing leaders.

EASTER BONNET
•Brandon Easterling leads FCS football in tackles per game (13.0), solo tackles (7.7) and is tied for first in fumbles recovered (3).
• He had 19 tackles against Duquesne. 
• Those 19 tackles are the most by a Dayton player since James Vercammen had 19 at San Diego in 2009.
• Easterling was UD's top tackler at ISU, putting his hat on 13 Sycamores (5 solo).  He also had a pass broken up.
• At Robert Morris, he led again with 11 tackles and nine solo hits.
• After 19 vs. Duquesne, he had 16 vs. Jacksonville.
• Easterling "only" had 10 at Valparaiso.  It was the first time he did not lead the Flyers in tackles, but he did have an interception.
• At Stetson, he had 13 hits (11 solo) with a pass interception and fumble recovery.

SLAMMIN' SAMMY
• True freshman Sam Webster has made an immediate impact in the UD kicking game.
• He was 6-for-6 in PAT's in his college debut at 14th-ranked Indiana State.
• At Robert Morris, his very first college field goal was a 53-yarder that was the third longest in Flyer history, the longest by a freshman, and the second-longest so far in 2019.
• He scored 10 points in the three-point win at RMU, and was named PFL Special Teams Player of the Week.
• For the season, Webster is 3-for-3 on field goals, 32-for-34 on PATs, and 16 of his 23 kickoffs have been touchbacks. 

UP NEXT
• Dayton returns home Saturday, Nov. 9 to host Marist at Welcome Stadium.
• Game time is 1 p.m. ET.