On paper, the Friday Night Football game appears a mismatch as the Calgary Stampeders travel to Winnipeg. But Matt Nichols gives the Blue Bombers a steady quarterback and Winnipeg wants to establish home dominance.
The BC Lions make it 2 straight weeks in Alberta, this time in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon. The nightcap, though in early evening, is the Battle of (Eastern) Ontario. Toronto at Ottawa will be so good that the teams will do this again in 10 days with Toronto as the "home" team.
The Alouettes go west to Regina as the Roughriders want to do their part to not have a Montréal crossover to the West.
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats draw the week off and need the time to figure out their quarterback questions.
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TSN
Friday
Calgary @ Winnipeg, 8:30p
Saturday
BC @ Edmonton, 4p
Toronto @ Ottawa, 7p
Sunday
Montréal @ Saskatchewan, 4p
Bye week
Hamilton
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The good news for the CFL is that Jon Cornish, Kevin Glenn, and Jonathan Crompton returned to the gridiron. The bad news for the league is that Zach Collaros is gone for the season. The Hamilton quarterback is out with a torn ACL.
Jeff Matthews gets the best shot to take over and the Tiger-Cats get an extra week to prepare. In relief, Matthews threw a pair of Pick-6s (as Rod Black likes to call them) in the Hamilton loss to Edmonton.
As good as it is to see old faces back in the lineup, people such as Zach Collaros got their break due to an injury. The Tiger-Cats have a lot of talent outside the QB position but will desperately miss Collaros.
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Chris Rainey did his absolute best to keep the BC Lions in the game against Calgary. Rainey pulled off 2 returns of 103 yards each: a kickoff return and a punt return.
Rainey finished with 333 return yards, yet the Lions lost to the Stampeders.
Stefan Logan almost had 2 TD returns for Montréal in its blowout of Winnipeg.
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The Kevin Glenn return meant 2 "old school" QBs — Glenn and Henry Burris — ended up in a very exciting battle.
Burris, 40, had an electric game for the Ottawa Redblacks, going 35-45 for 477 yards. Burris got passes to 7 different receivers.
The team's late drive for the winning TD is something this team could not have physically or mentally done last year. To fight that hard and come back late in a hard place to play on the road: year 2 for RedBlacks is potentially a playoff story.
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The return of Jonathan Crompton ended up being an Edmonton quarterback reunion with Matt Nichols. Crompton, Logan, and the rest of the Alouettes made the win over Winnipeg, amazingly the team's first in a few years, look really easy.
Montréal is 5-6 and in last place in the East. We could see a bit of back and forth in the East but right now, the Montréal Alouettes would be the crossover team to the West if the playoffs were this week.
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The changing weather means wind will start playing a role in the CFL games. Scoring early and against the wind becomes part of the playbook.
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In watching the ESPN3 feed, U.S. viewers can't get the commercials on TSN. If you find federal political ads are running during the game, let us know the information in the comments section. We are curious as to which ads apparently appeal to a football audience.
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| Game | Announcers |
| BC @ Calgary | Chris Cuthbert/Glen Suitor |
| Edmonton @ Hamilton | Rod Black/Duane Forde |
| Ottawa @ Saskatchewan | Chris Cuthbert/Glen Suitor |
| Winnipeg @ Montréal | Rod Black/Duane Forde |
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