With the rematch between these two teams getting underway on Saturday night, will the writers go with an Edmonton sweep or will they all stick with their Saskatchewan hunches?<\/p>\n
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RELATED BC AT WINNIPEG<\/p>\n Thursday, July 30 BC dropped to 1-5 after their loss at home to the Toronto Argonauts on Saturday night. Both Chase Brice<\/a> and Kaidon Salter saw time behind centre for the Lions in Week 8, with Brice starting the game and Salter coming in to take over later in the contest. According to a report from TSN\u2019s Farhan Lalji, Salter is expected to start this week<\/a>. Dru Brown<\/a> started his third game for the Bombers in place of the injured Zach Collaros<\/a>, and while he did throw a touchdown pass in the loss, he also threw four interceptions. Will Winnipeg be able to bounce back at Princess Auto Stadium, where they are 1-3 on the season, or can BC snap their losing stretch? All of the writers are going with the home team.<\/p>\n WRITERS\u2019 PICK: 100% Winnipeg<\/p>\n MONTREAL AT OTTAWA<\/p>\n Friday, July 31 The Ottawa REDBLACKS are still searching for their first win of the season and return from a Week 8 bye ready to welcome the Alouettes to town. Davis Alexander<\/a> and his Als have won their last four contests and are hoping to ride the momentum to the nation\u2019s capital on Friday night. Will Ottawa get their first win of the season in Week 9? Or will the red hot Als be too much for them to handle? All of the pick makers are siding with Montreal.<\/p>\n WRITERS\u2019 PICK: 100% Montreal<\/p>\n CALGARY AT HAMILTON<\/p>\n Saturday, August 1 Hamilton hung in there with the now 6-1 Montreal Alouettes in Week 8, keeping things close until the Als pulled away in the fourth quarter, showing they are still competitive even without Bo Levi Mitchell. Tre Ford<\/a> is 1-1 in his starts since taking over the reins at QB for the Tiger-Cats and now he and his Tabbies welcome the Stampeders to town for some Saturday afternoon football. Vernon Adams Jr. is still the only quarterback in the CFL that has yet to throw an interception, but the pivot isn\u2019t the only player Hamilton will need to account for. Tyreik McAllister was a scoring machine last week, finding the end zone three times (rushing, receiving and missed field goal return) in the first half.\u00a0 Most of the experts are rolling with Adams Jr. and McAllister winning their second-straight contest. Everyone is taking the visitors.<\/p>\n WRITERS\u2019 PICK: 100% Calgary<\/p>\n SASKATCHEWAN AT EDMONTON<\/p>\n Saturday, August 1 Week 8\u2019s matchup between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Elks was arguably the best game of the 2026 season so far (and there have been plenty of really good games this year). Cody Fajardo<\/a> led his Elks to victory, throwing for a career-best 510 yards and four touchdowns<\/a> in Edmonton\u2019s sixth win of the season. Trevor Harris<\/a> put up great numbers himself in that one, throwing for 386 yards, four touchdown passes and an interception in the loss. Harris and co. won\u2019t have to wait long to seek revenge on just the second team this season that has beaten them with the second half of the home-and-home capping Week 9 in the CFL. Who gets the W this week? Everyone but Kristina and Vicki think it will be the visitors.<\/p>\n WRITERS\u2019 PICK: 60% Saskatchewan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Last week proved that in the CFL, anyone can win, even when they are the underdog…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-832485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832485","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=832485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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