DAYTON -- The University of Dayton football goes on the road Saturday when the Flyers are at Butler.  

Dayton opened its 2022 Pioneer Football League season last Saturday with a 27-14 win over Drake at home.   UD is 3-1 overall this season. 

A charter member of the PFL, Dayton has won 12 league championships in the PFL's 29 seasons.  UD and San Diego have won the most league titles.

Jake Chisholm and Sam Webster were named this week's Pioneer Football League Offensive and Special Teams Players of the Week respectively after they combined for 21 of Dayton's points in UD's 27-14 win over Drake on Saturday.  The two seniors have nine PFL Player of the Week awards between them so far in their careers.

GOOD NEWS WORTH REPEATING
The Flyers entered the season with the fifth-best winning percentage (.727, 168-63) in FCS football since 2000 AND have produced the most football Academic All-Americans (35) in Division I in the same time frame.  The top five in winning percentage are North Dakota State (.808), Harvard (.756), Montana (.754), San Diego (.736) and Dayton (.727). 

STREAKING
UD has not been shut out in a school-record 501 straight games, the best such active string in Division I football. The last team to shut out the Flyers was Marshall, 9-0, on Oct. 16, 1976. 

PFL POWER
• The Pioneer Football League is in its 30th 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 130-45 record is the best in PFL history. 
• The Flyers' 12 league championships are the most in PFL history.  San Diego also has 12.

THE MAN AT THE TOP
• Rick Chamberlin is now in his 14th season in charge of Flyer football. His record is 102-46.
• He is the 16th active FCS coach with 100 career wins.
• Chamberlin is just the third D-I coach (out of 429 with 100 career wins) to play for his alma mater, immediately join (and never leave) the coaching staff, and then become the head coach while only doing all at one school.
• The first two were Knute Rockne, and the man who succeeded John Heisman at Georgia Tech, William A. Alexander.
• 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). 
• Chamberlin is also in his 48th season as part of the Flyer football program.  A Flyer All-American linebacker in his playing days, he has been a part of 396 of UD's 696 wins – 26 as a player, 268 as an assistant coach, and 102 as a head coach.  He has also been a part of 516 of UD's 1,099 games. 

THE MAN AT THE TOP IN THE PFL
• Rick Chamberlin is the winningest coach in Pioneer Football League history, with 75 wins. 
• No other PFL coach has 60 league wins. 

CAPTAINS, MY CAPTAINS
• The Flyer co-captains for the 2022 season are senior running back Jake Chisholm, graduate linebacker Ben Schmiesing and senior offensive guard Brian Stevens. 
• Senior wideout Derek Willits is this year's special teams captain.  

CHISHOLM EARNS PRESEASON HONORS
• Co-captain Jake Chisholm is on the Stats Perform Walter Payton Award Watch List.  The Payton award goes annually to the FCS offensive player of the year.   This is the third consecutive Flyer season a Dayton player is on the watch list (Adam Trautman, Jack Cook).  Chisholm is one of 10 Payton finalists from last returning to the list this season.
• Chisholm is also on the Stats Perform and HERO Sports Preseason All-America Second Teams as an all-purpose runner.

CLASS ACT
• Not only is Jake Chisholm a multi-year All-American on the field, he is a multi-year CoSIDA Academic All-American in the classroom. 
• He was a second team Academic All-American in 2019, and first team in 2020 and 2021.  
• He is the tenth University of Dayton football player to be named a First Team Academic All-American at least twice, dating back to UD's first football Academic All-American in 1970.  The others are Christopher Beaschler, Brandon Cramer, Greg French, Steve Lochow, Tim Quinn, Dan Rosenbaum, Brandon Wingeier and Tucker Yinger.  
• Chisholm is also just the eighth Flyer student-athlete to earn any sort of Academic All-America recognition three times (he was named Second Team Academic All-America in 2019).  The others are baseball's Tom Beechem, cross country's Amy Fleck, and football's Cramer, Leisring, Rosenbaum, Wingeier and Yinger. 
• No Dayton student-athlete has ever been named a four-time Academic All-American.

UP NEXT
• The Flyers are at Marist next Saturday.
• UD's next home game is on Oct. 22, when Stetson comes to town.