{"id":945786,"date":"2026-10-25T14:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T14:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945786\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T14:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T14:16:16","slug":"cfl-playoff-bracket-set-blue-bombers-to-cross-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945786\/","title":{"rendered":"CFL playoff bracket set, Blue Bombers to cross over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 2026 Canadian Football League playoff bracket is set following the conclusion of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With the Saskatchewan Roughriders\u2019 16-6 Week 21 win over the Edmonton Elks, the Riders will remain on the West side of the bracket and set up a matchup with the BC Lions in the Western semi-final on Oct. 31 on TSN. The winner will advance to take on the Edmonton Elks in the Western Final on Nov. 7 on TSN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That means the Winnipeg Blue Bombers will cross over into the East side of the bracket and match up with the Toronto Argonauts at BMO Field in the Eastern semi-final, also on Oct. 31 on TSN. The winner will advance to take on the Montreal Alouettes in the Eastern Final on Nov. 7 on TSN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Edmonton Elks and Montreal Alouettes will receive byes and meet the winner of each of the conference semifinals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 113th Grey Cup is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 15 at McMahon Stadium in Calgary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Canadian Football League playoff bracket is set following the conclusion of the regular season. With the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-945786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","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\/945786","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=945786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}