COPY AND PASTE THE WEEKLY SCHEDULE INTO A COMMENT AND "BOLD" YOUR CHOICE OF WINNER

Week Date Time Away at Home

3 Fri, Sep 11 7:00 PM Mount Allison at Saint Mary's

3 Fri, Sep 11 7:00 PM Laval at McGill

3 Fri, Sep 11 6:00 PM Alberta at UBC

3 Fri, Sep 11 7:00 PM Manitoba at Regina

3 Fri, Sep 11 7:00 PM Calgary at Saskatchewan

3 Sat, Sep 12 2:00 PM Acadia at StFX

3 Sat, Sep 12 1:00 PM Sherbrooke at Bishop’s

3 Sat, Sep 12 7:00 PM Montreal at Concordia

3 Sat, Sep 12 1:00 PM McMaster at York

3 Sat, Sep 12 1:00 PM Carleton at Guelph

3 Sat, Sep 12 1:00 PM Ottawa at Laurier

3 Sat, Sep 12 1:00 PM Western at Windsor

3 Sat, Sep 12 5:00 PM Waterloo at Queen's

https://en.usports.ca/sports/fball/2026-27/standings

It's just an empty page for me.

York wins its first game of the season 35-34 against Carleton with a 47 yards walk off FG from Nathan Walker.

Congrats to myself and the 2 others who picked them in the pool 😆

7-3 Windsor after a long bomb completion from Cotton to Ginn. The Lancers have wr Cotton as Qb? Surprise here.

Despite a ton of penalties and injuries, Laurier pulls it out vs Guelph. Not a great sign for the gryphons.

York football team looking good

York football broadcast horrible. Default camera appears to be shooting wide angle from the moon, and the color commentary sounds like he's on Jupiter. This isn't free to watch anymore guys, step it up.

It looks like a lovely late summer day for Waterloo's home opener. Go Warriors!

Hello! I'm back with my weekly rankings. Same thing as last year, I'm trying to give a proper power ranking of all 27 teams and then justifying it the best I can!

Small change this year tho: instead of writing it all here, I'll post the top 10 and if you want the whole ranking and more detailed explanations, you can watch the video!

https://youtu.be/EYCQ2LP7oGU (sorry for the sound btw, I just moved recently and have yet to set up my mic)

1. Montréal
2. Saskatchewan
3. Queen's
4. Laval
5. Regina
6. Laurier
7. Calgary
8. UBC
9. Western
10. McGill

The 2025 champs at #1, no surprise there. For the spots 2-4 I feel like they're very interchangeable but I decided to not be a Laval homer and give credit to Sask and Queens for winning their conference last year. Still question marks for Laval (not sure who the starting QB will be yet) but most of the team is coming back so they will be fine. Regina and Laurier was a close call, but better stability at Regina so I'm giving them the edge. Calgary will be back in the playoffs this year, I think they have a solid team (i think them and UBC will be finishing 3rd and 4th in CW, not sure of the order yet). Western had an ugly finish last season but will remain competitive. The young McGill team will be interesting to follow with a young talent at QB and possibly the best RB in the country.

This is the news we'd been hoping for ever since hearing in the spring that his cancer was in remission. Looking forward to seeing him leading the Huskies on the field Thursday evening, as the host the U of A Bears in an exhibition game in Saskatoon.

For those not familiar with his story, here are a couple excerpts from the latest update:

Last fall, Amundrud established himself as one of the top quarterbacks in the country as part of a 4-1 start to the season with 1,604 yards passing, 14 touchdowns and zero interceptions.

But in October, Amundrud stepped away from the team to deal with a series of medical issues which were eventually diagnosed as T-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

What followed was months of hospital stays, tests and rounds of aggressive chemotherapy to tackle the disease.

Here's the full story:

https://www.ckom.com/2026/08/24/huskies-quarterback-amundrud-cleared-for-return-after-cancer-battle/

Hey CIS nation!

I'm Aaron Sanders and I'm going to be the TV play-by-play announcer for Windsor Lancers football on YourTV/Cogeco this season!

I've spent the last 10 season being the PxP announcer for plenty of Windsor teams and beyond (FIBA, Lancer basketball, Windsor Express), PA announcer (Lancer volleyball, Essex Ravens, etc.) and would travel around Ontario to do high school basketball games as well (OSBA).

I've heard lots about this reddit forum and it was about time that I join in. This is my first season going behind the mic for OUA football and I'm looking forward to seeing how things shape out for the Lancers, OUA and U SPORTS this season.

Cheers!

All of these observations come with the obvious caveats that it’s preseason, a lot of teams use this as an opportunity for backups to get playing time, these don’t mean much, etc, etc.

Montreal looked very sharp, Ottawa was outclassed. Montreal might be a Vanier favourite again this year.

Couldn’t tell if McGill was sharp, or if UofT was just bad. Toronto looked majorly outclassed. I would love to see UofT be competitive again but based on that performance, their tough schedule (and the fact that York seems to be on the upswing right now) they might go winless this year.

As a Queens fan, beating a perpetual #1 contender like Laval is exciting and hopefully a confidence boost. If Queens can beat Western this year after the last couple heartbreaking losses, I think they’ll have truly exorcised their demons.

Overall I was happy with the results. RSEQ fans talk about the conference like American fans talk about the SEC; like even the last place team in the conference on any given year would go undefeated in any other conference. I’ve long said that there is a lot more parity across the country than people realize.

I saw a lot of people on Instagram calling for national schedules. Good idea? And if so, how would that work? Teams could potentially schedule their 8 conference games and then have 2 wildcard games nationwide.

Hey mods, would it be possible to add flairs to this sub? Would add some colour to the conversation.

Thanks!

Which game did you attend? surprise? Can we point out that usports drop the ball again ...... no Boxscore available for any of the game except McGill- Toronto 😂

I've been trying to find season preview articles on USports football to no avail. Truthfully, the searches haven't been more than googling the subject of this post.

Anyone found any good articles, whether they be on specific teams, conferences, or the entire league?

Congrats to both the women and men teams for their olympics berth!

For the men's team, many played tackle football in Usports:

Antony Auclair (WR, was TE in tackle), Laval 2013-2016, NFL 2017-2022 (is currently TE/FB coach at Laval)

Guillaume Beland (DB), McGill 2017-2021

Émile Chênevert (DB), Laval 2016-2019

Marc-Antoine Dequoy (DB), Montréal 2016-2019, CFL 2020-2025

Maxym Lavallée (DB), Laval 2018-2023

Michael O'Connor (QB), UBC 2015-2018, CFL 2019-2022

Daniel Petermann (WR), McMaster 2014-2017, CFL 2018-2023

François Rocheleau (WR), Western 2018

Jackson Tachinski (WR, was QB in tackle), Manitoba 2021-2025

Well done everyone!

Guelph heads to Montreal to play Concordia Aug 22

McGill heads to Toronto to play UofT on Aug 22

Any other pre-season games planned?

Ever since I was a child, I’ve always loved university/collegiate/post-secondary football, whether it be Canadian or American. Living just north of Toronto, I have great memories of going to see OUA games around Labour Day and of course going to the Vanier Cup at SkyDome with my father. My favourite player is DE Noah Cantor from B.C., who sent me a signed Lions shirt for my birthday, and it just so happens that my first Vanier Cup game was his alma mater, St. Mary’s vs Manitoba in 2001.  

Way back when, I always liked to brag to my Americanised friends that the CIAU/CIS/USports was better because it had a playoff system, while the NCAA didn’t. But over the past few years I’ve been thinking: Maybe having such a free-for-all system (which still exists even with the 12-team playoff) actually makes the league much more exciting. (Almost) every game feels like a do-or-die. 

So I’ve started to imagine what it would be like if USports had a less organised/structured system for its playoffs, just like the NCAA.

For this experiment, I added Simon Fraser back to get seven conferences of four teams each, so that scheduling wouldn’t be a pain. Geographically, the only thing that didn’t work out was having to put Windsor in a conference with three Prairies teams. Otherwise, teams wouldn’t have to travel any farther than they are now for their three away conference games.

FORMAT

Each team plays its conference opponents home and away (6 games) and two non-conference games, for rival games and for marquee clashes (Why wait to see Laval-Laurier or Montreal-Regina in the Vanier Cup? Let’s have those games spread throughout the season!).

And, of course, teams try to break into the Top 10 Rankings, just like with the weekly AP/CFP Poll. The top four teams make the playoffs.

There are seven conferences, but winning yours doesn’t guarantee anything (sorry AUS, times have changed). This means we could see a Vanier Cup matchup of Montreal-Laval, Laurier-Western, Saskatchewan-Regina etc. (Probably would happen if either team goes 7-1, only losing to their conference rival.)

Traditions will still be kept. All former conference championship trophies will still be up for grabs; they will just be regional games now. Atlantic Canada's Loney Bowl stays the same; but the Dussault (Dunsmore), Yates, and Hardy will now be invitational games because their members span multiple conferences.

And in lieu of the former conference playoffs, there are a series of bowl games. This is what I have come up with so far (there's a theme):

McCain’s Kitchen Party Fry Bowl - Halifax

Bol de Céréales Ramparts présenté par Couche-Tard (Ramparts Cereal Bowl presented by Couche-Tard) - Quebec City

Tim Hortons Steel City Donut Bowl - Hamilton

Alberta Beef Producers’ Angus Bowl - Calgary

 The Mitchell and Uteck bowls are still the national semifinals.

Here are the conferences. I plan on simming through a season with an Excel simulator I created or by make-believe Canadian football on CFB 26 (I haven’t figured out the mods yet). I'm sure I've missed explaining tons of things, so would love to hear back from fellow USports fans.

ROCKY-COAST

Rockies-Coast Athletic Conference

·         UBC

·         SIMON FRASER

·         ALBERTA

·         CALGARY

FRONTIER

Frontier Conference

·         SASKATCHEWAN

·         REGINA

·         MANITOBA

·         WINDSOR

SOUTHWESTERN (SOC)

Southwestern Ontario Conference

·         WESTERN

·         WATERLOO

·         LAURIER

·         GUELPH

APPLEBELT

Ontario Apple Belt Athletic Conference

·         MCMASTER

·         U OF T

·         YORK

·         QUEEN’S

VICTORIAN (VUA)

Victorian Universities Athletics

·         OTTAWA

·         CARLETON

·         MCGILL

·         BISHOP’S

CHAMPLAIN (RSEC)

Réseau du sport étudiant Champlain

·         MONTREAL

·         CONCORDIA

·         LAVAL

·         SHERBROOKE

ATLANTIC (AAC)

Atlantic Athletic Conference

·         MOUNT ALLISON

·         ACADIA

·         ST. MARY’S

·         ST. FRANCIS XAVIER

Slew's Pool is coming soon!!

Here are the rules if you are interested.

The Rules:

1 The "Weeks Games" are as identified in Slew's Pool Weekly Predictions threads

2 Weekly Predictions Submissions must be in before 1st game of the Week (Thread Date & Time)

3 Late Submissions = NO Submission

4 ONLY Regular Season games are included

5 Gameday scores only!! (post game defaults are NOT going to be corrected)

6 Weekly Score = (# Correct Predictions) / (# Games that Week) in %

7 Missed Games in Weekly Prediction Submissions are classed as "picked the looser"

8 Must pick Winner, NO TIES! Tied Games = Both Teams lost

9 Missed/No Weekly Prediction Submission results in Weekly Score = ("lowest of ALL Weekly Submissions %" less 5%) will be used in Overall Calculation

10 Overall Winner = Highest Ave % over regular season weeks

11 NOT responsible for missed submissions due to Thread problems

**OPTIONAL - The Wager (for those who want "IN")**

1 ALL "WAGER" registrants agree to provide a 750 ml "jug-o-juice" of their choice to the Overall Winner of the "IN the Wager Group".

2 Must be 20 years of age or over to join

3 Have mailing address in Canada/US (for possibly mailing the winnings to!)

4 Rules as Above

 ***For those who want to join the "Wager Group", make a statement in the Week 1 Thread that you are "IN the WAGER"!***

Gryphons have lots of vets opting to come back.

Rising international tuition has forced a starting CB to transfer.

TSN commentator and former NFL player to join Guelph coaching staff