A familiar Grey Cup matchup will take place two rounds earlier this season.<\/p>\n
The Toronto Argonauts (9-9) will host the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (9-9) in the CFL East semifinal at BMO Field on Oct. 31 at 1 p.m. ET \/ 10 a.m. PT.<\/p>\n
The Saskatchewan Roughriders’ win over the Edmonton Elks in the regular-season finale on Saturday dropped the Blue Bombers into fourth in the West, giving Winnipeg the crossover spot in the CFL Playoffs.<\/p>\n
The Argos beat the Blue Bombers in the 2022 and 2024 Grey Cup games.<\/p>\n
All eyes will be on Blue Bombers star quarterback Zach Collaros this week at practice. He was knocked out of Friday’s season-ending win versus the B.C. Lions with an upper-body injury. Dru Brown replaced Collaros and led the Blue Bombers to a victory with a strong performance, clinching a playoff spot for the 10th year in a row.<\/p>\n
Brown started both of Winnipeg’s games against Toronto this season while Collaros was sidelined with injuries, with the teams splitting the two contests.<\/p>\n
Brown also started the last CFL playoff game in Toronto with the Ottawa Redblacks in 2024. The Argos won 58-38 in that East semifinal.<\/p>\n
Argos quarterback Chad Kelly missed Toronto’s final game on Friday with a lower-body injury, but the home contest against Montreal meant nothing in the standings.<\/p>\n
The Blue Bombers also were the crossover team last season, losing to the Montreal Alouettes in the East semifinal.<\/p>\n
No crossover team, which occurs when the fourth-place team in one division finishes higher than the third-place team in the other, has ever advanced to the Grey Cup.<\/p>\n
The winner of the East semifinal will go to Montreal next week to face the Alouettes in the division final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A familiar Grey Cup matchup will take place two rounds earlier this season. The Toronto Argonauts (9-9) will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-945390","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\/945390","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=945390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}