It seems like yesterday that I was waiting patiently for the start of the 2025 CFL season. Now here we are, approaching the one-third mark of this season. Week 7 kicked off with Part II of the 2025 season series between the Toronto Argonauts and the Montréal Alouettes. The first meeting took place in Week 1, and it was a bad day in the office for the defending champs.
This is the top rivalry in the East Division now. This was the Eastern Final two years straight, and these two teams won the last three Grey Cups. Regarding the Argos, we needed this. Badly. We are off to a bad start, we’re in a deep hole, and we can’t seem to get out of it. However, the Argos got off to a great start, and that turned into a 25-7 lead. We were going to win this game, and our bad start would look, well, lukewarm. Even with the Als scoring in the third quarter, it still looked like we’d even this season series.
And then the fourth quarter happened. Then the turnovers. Turnovers that became points for Alouettes. A dozen of them. The Alouettes won, 26-25. I was absolutely floored. We had this game in the bag. Now, instead of an even season series and a 2-4 start, we’re 1-5 and the head-to-head is gone. Though we didn’t finish first last year and still won the whole thing. Even so, we need to get out of this hole… fast.
A pair of Western games followed during Week 7. First, a Friday meeting between the Calgary Stampeders and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and this meeting saw the Stamps absolutely dominate from beginning to end. A 41-20 victory for Calgary to continue their amazing start, while the Blue Bombers continue to hang on in the division. Saturday featured the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the BC Lions facing off, and this game was much closer. It’s always fun when those teams get together, but it ended with the Riders victorious, 33-27. Finally, a Sunday Eastern battle between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Ottawa Redblacks, and this one was finished early. Hamilton definitely looks like they’re for real; a 30-15 win to add to their amazing start, and add to Ottawa’s misery. Don’t fret, Ottawa, the Senators return in October.
So the season is one-third done, and here’s how things stand:
Is the world coming to an end? The Hamilton Tiger-Cats in first place at the one-third mark?! Yes, it’s by tiebreaker, but still, first place is first place. It definitely looks like that the TiCats and Als will be two of the East teams who get in already, but the Argos still have some hope. The Lions loss did help us overall, as we now stand a game and a half behind via crosssover. As for the Redblacks, well, I don’t know. 1-6 is a huge hole to try to get out of. In the West, the Stampeders and Roughriders are really kicking a lot of ass right now. Both teams 5-1 at this point, while the Bombers hang on to third place. Only the Elks are the fifth wheel of sorts, but there’s a lot of CFL to go.
Week 8 begins on Thursday, July 24 with the Montréal Alouettes heading west to face off against the Calgary Stampeders. On Friday, July 25, the Saskatchewan Roughriders will host the Edmonton Elks, and on Saturday, July 26, the Toronto Argonauts will host the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Finally, on Sunday, July 27, it’s the BC Lions and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats battling it out.
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