The Saskatchewan Roughriders are the reigning and defending Grey Cup champions.<\/p>\n
Fresh off a bye, and with home field advantage, the Riders were also considered an obvious favourite at -4.5 at FanDuel for Thursday Night Football in Week 8.<\/p>\n
The fans who packed Mosaic Stadium in Regina last night had plenty of reasons to believe they had bought a ticket to watch another Saskatchewan win.<\/p>\n
Instead, it was the Edmonton Elks with another upset.<\/p>\n
Cody Fajardo set a career-high with 510 passing yards, and Vincent Blanchard stepped up with the winning field goal from 57 yards out as the Elks stunned the Riders faithful with a 36-34 walk-off win.<\/p>\n
Dismissed as an afterthought when the season started, with the longest odds to win it all, Edmonton improved to 2-0 against the lone remaining teams that still have shorter odds to win the Grey Cup at FanDuel.<\/p>\n
The Elks own the CFL\u2019s best record at 6-1, with a Riders rematch on deck in Week 9, before they travel across the country to face the Montreal Alouettes in Week 10.<\/p>\n
Montreal remains the Grey Cup favourite at +210.<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan is still the second choice at +410.<\/p>\n
The Elks, which are 2-0 against the Alouettes and Riders, have gone from +1900 to +500 to win it all at FanDuel.<\/p>\n
With only a third of the CFL regular season in the books, we still have a long way to go, and a lot left to be decided on the road to the 113th Grey Cup in Calgary. <\/p>\n
Yet one thing is certain now.<\/p>\n
Nobody is overlooking the Elks as a Grey Cup contender.<\/p>\n
Turning the page this morning, the focus shifts some 570 kilometres from Regina to Winnipeg for another CFL West Division showdown on Friday Night Football.<\/p>\n
The Calgary Stampeders were trending in the right direction prior to back-to-back losses to Montreal.<\/p>\n
Now they brace for another tough test against an opponent that has won three in a row.<\/p>\n
Fortunately for Calgary, TSN\u2019s hottest handicapper is backing the Stampeders as a FanDuel Best Bet.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s set the stage for Friday Night Football in this Morning Coffee column for Friday July 24th, 2026.<\/p>\n
Stampeders, Bombers Set For Another West Division Showdown On CFL Friday Night Football<\/p>\n
Wins and losses still matter to some of us.<\/p>\n
After finishing off the biggest tournament of the summer on a high note, I found myself at a bit of a crossroads in terms of next steps.<\/p>\n
With the NFL and college football seasons right around the corner, I was looking forward to a deep dive into everything I needed to finalize in my prep for September.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, I\u2019ve been able to both take a step back and continue to build my bankroll thanks to Drew Morrison.<\/p>\n
In case you missed it, Drew went 2-0 with his FanDuel Best Bets for Thursday Night Football.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s on an epic 8-2 run dating back to Week 6 to improve to 16-7 with his FanDuel Best Bets for the CFL season.<\/p>\n
All of Stamps Nation will be hoping he stays hot tonight.<\/p>\n
Following back-to-back losses to Montreal, Calgary is +102 to end its slide tonight in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
The Bombers are a 1.5-point favourite at FanDuel.<\/p>\n
The total is 60.5.<\/p>\n
As Drew highlighted in 3rd and 1, Vernon Adams Jr. leads the CFL with 17 touchdown passes and has yet to throw an interception this season.<\/p>\n
Tonight, he\u2019ll face a Bombers secondary that has allowed only nine touchdown passes.<\/p>\n
Fortunately for Calgary, reinforcements are on the way.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Dru Brown took over for the injured Zach Collaros, and is coming off an epic comeback revenge win over his former team in the Ottawa Redblacks last week.<\/p>\n
However, Drew highlighted a couple of dangerous throws that could have been picked and the narrow margin in which Winnipeg escaped with a victory in Ottawa as two reasons to believe the Stamps could pull off an upset.<\/p>\n
When these teams met back in Week 1, it was the running backs that dominated with Dedrick Mills and Brady Oliveira combining for 225 rushing yards and two scores in a narrow 30-28 Bombers win.<\/p>\n
Collaros went 17-of-28 for 233 yards with a touchdown and an interception.<\/p>\n
If the Stampeders are going to get back in the win column tonight, they\u2019ll need to slow down Oliveira and put the pressure on Brown to beat them with his arm.<\/p>\n
Calgary has allowed a league-high 35.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
As impressive as Adams has looked to this point, the defence needs to be a lot better if the Stampeders want to compete with the Bombers, Riders, and Elks in a loaded West Division.<\/p>\n
Our guy Drew Morrison believes Calgary is in a decent spot tonight and backed the Stampeders +1.5.<\/p>\n
With the Moose back in the lineup for Calgary, we could be in line for another entertaining West Division clash as Week 8 continues in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
Hopefully for Stamps Nation, TSN\u2019s hottest handicapper can keep it going with another FanDuel Best Bet winner for Friday Night Football.<\/p>\n
Have a great weekend, everyone! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders are the reigning and defending Grey Cup champions. Fresh off a bye, and with home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,289145,49,48,521,522,520,76945,82],"class_list":["post-827638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-betting-sports-betting","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-cfl-sports-football-league-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}