{"id":948646,"date":"2026-10-27T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948646\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:22:09","slug":"roughriders-prepare-for-yet-another-playoff-game-against-b-c-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948646\/","title":{"rendered":"Roughriders prepare for yet another playoff game against B.C. Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Saskatchewan Roughriders and B.C. Lions are certainly becoming familiar with each other. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the third straight year, the two teams \u2014 who both finished with 10-8 records in the regular season \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/leaderpost.com\/sports\/football\/saskatchewan-roughriders\/rider-rumblings-ep-213-can-roughriders-beat-lions-in-west-semifinal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will face each other in the CFL playoffs <\/a>as the Roughriders will travel to Vancouver on Saturday (2:30 p.m.) for the West semifinal with the winner advancing to the West final the following weekend against the Edmonton Elks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will be the fourth meeting between the two teams this year \u2014 with the Lions holding a 2-1 record in the regular season \u2014 with wins at BC Place on Aug. 23 and Sept. 25 after Saskatchewan won the season opener at Mosaic Stadium on June 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders and B.C. Lions are certainly becoming familiar with each other. For the third straight year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[324669,49,48,521,522,276177,276912,276178,158032,520,276176,82],"class_list":["post-948646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-324669","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-category-cfl","tag-category-football","tag-category-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-category-sports","tag-cfl","tag-leader-post","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948646","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=948646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}