BC stays in southern Ontario, starting out in Hamilton on Friday Night Football.
The green of Saskatchewan travels to the green of Edmonton in the Friday nightcap with an awkward start time.
You might recall that this game originally was in Regina but was moved due to rescheduling to accommodate the Elks rescheduling due to COVID-19 issues.
This is the first time these teams have played each other since 2019.
Toronto plays its eastern Ontario rival with a trip to visit the RedBlacks in a Saturday late afternoon start.
Montréal visits its old eastern rival in Winnipeg to take on the Blue Bombers.
Calgary has the week off to finish its Halloween candy.
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Friday
BC @ Hamilton, 7p
Saskatchewan @ Edmonton, 9:45p
Saturday
Toronto @ Ottawa, 4p
Montréal @ Winnipeg, 7p
Bye week: Calgary
.@MTLAlouettes go from 1st to 3rd in @CFL East Division (@Ticats have tiebreaker). @sskroughriders along with @TorontoArgos clinch playoff spot.
— Chad Rubel (@canadian_xing) October 31, 2021
Saskatchewan and Calgary kept pace in the West playoff chase. Toronto and Hamilton wins helped take Montréal from 1st (with the tiebreaker) to 3rd (a different tiebreaker).
We are getting close to not having a crossover. A Hamilton win this week over the BC Lions and 3 teams from the East will go to the playoffs for the first time since 2015.
The Calgary hot streak continues as the Stampeders have won 4 of the last 5 games to get to .500 at 6-6. Ka’Deem Carey in now at 784 yards for the season with 103 yards in Ottawa. Bo Levi Mitchell is now the 18th player in CFL history to eclipse 30,000 passing yards.
The Ottawa RedBlacks actually had a 10-3 first quarter lead but could only score a field goal in the rest of the game.
Don Jackson delivered 120 rushing yards, more than any other Hamilton Tiger-Cats running back this season, on a team with good running backs. The Edmonton Elks had little response to Jackson on the ground or Jeremiah Masoli through the air.
Calgary and Hamilton had inferior opponents on the road, didn't overlook them and churned out needed wins to keep up in the playoff chase.
The rope that Calgary has climbed is parallel to the rope where the BC Lions have fallen. The Lions were 4-2 before the current 5-game losing streak. BC hasn't won since September 18. Before this past week's 2-point loss, the Lions were outscored 84-10 in the 2 previous games.
Montréal was undefeated in October before the loss to the Roughriders last week.
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The Toronto Argonauts are 7-4 despite a -25 point differential (248-273). How does that work? Win the close games.
5 of the 7 Argos wins have been by 3 or fewer points:
- Week 1 23-20 @ Calgary
- Week 6 17-16 Hamilton
- Week 8 30-27 Montréal
- Week 10 24-23 @ Hamilton
- Week 13 31-29 (OT) BC
Toronto is also 1 of 2 teams still undefeated at home (5-0). Winnipeg, whose only road loss was in Toronto, has a 6-0 home record.
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Saskatchewan and Montréal was a defence battle with the Roughriders looking that much better. We saw Trevor Harris at the end of the game for the Alouettes, his 3rd East team. Hamilton is the only East team that has not employed Harris.
Harris will start this week in place of Matthew Shiltz, who is nursing injuries.
BC traded a kicker to Winnipeg and kept Jimmy Camacho. Camacho was 0-3 in field goal attempts in the rain in Toronto. Boris Bede hit 5 field goals for the Argos in that same rain.
Camacho did get rouges for 2 of the kicks that sent the game into overtime. BC had to go for 2 after the TD in overtime but couldn't convert.
Camacho replaced Takeru Yamasaki as the BC Lions kicker earlier this season.
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A contingency in the recent Nick Arbuckle trade: the Edmonton Elks pick going to Toronto would jump from a 3rd round pick to a 2nd round pick if the quarterback's time in Edmonton was extended beyond the end of the season.
Even before Arbuckle took a snap, the Edmonton Elks signed him to a 2022 contract.
Arbuckle could do some damage to Saskatchewan's playoff seeding. There is the trip back to Toronto in the middle of the worst road trip in CFL history.
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Rod Smith and Duane Forde spent some time on Highway 417 with stops in Ottawa on Friday and Montréal on Saturday.
Dustin Nielson and Glen Suitor hung out in Edmonton on Friday. Marshall Ferguson and Matt Dunigan teamed up again to call the game in Toronto on Saturday.
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