Hamilton Tiger-Cats (7-7) travel up the QEW tonight to play the Toronto Argonauts (7-7) in a game that is sure to be one of the biggest games of the entire CFL season. Both teams are tied in the East Division right now for 2nd place and the winner of this game will take over the sole lead. Since Hamilton has the tiebreaker over the Argonauts already locked up it makes the game slightly more important for the Argonauts.

Both teams managed to win last week, which kept them at a deadlock in the standings. Hamilton beat Edmonton 36-11 thanks in large part to the 3 TD passes from Glenn. Cobb ran the ball 16 times in the game for 1 TD, but was held to only 49 yards. The entire offence did a great job protecting the ball though, which ensured the Eskimos wouldn’t have short field opportunities. Arland Bruce was easily the best receiver on the Ti-Cats, as he caught 6 passes for 142 yards and 1 TD.

B.C. Lions (5-9) will be playing against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (3-10) in the 2nd game today. It isn’t the match-up most Canadians wanted to be watching while they eat their turkey dinners, but it’s definitely better then no game. I hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving today and having a great time watching the Alouettes beat-up on the Stampeders. This is a really important game for the Blue Bombers, as they can kiss their playoff chances goodbye if they lose today at home.

The Lions beat the Blue Bombers last week in a low scoring affair that featured great defence and plenty of FG’s. Hopefully today’s game proves to be a little more exciting then last week’s match-up or else we might be in for a snooze fest. Jyles completed 21 of 37 passing attempts last week for 258 yards, 1 TD and 1 INT while Lulay completed 21 of 33 passes for 237 yards. Both QB’s also ran the ball a few times although Lulay surprisingly won the running battle. Lulay ran the ball 9 times for 57 yards and 1 TD while Jyles ran the ball 2 times for 20 yards and 1 fumble.

Toronto Argonauts (6-7) travel west for a showdown with the Saskatchewan Roughriders (9-4) this Saturday. Both teams played last week with the only difference being the venue, as the Argonauts played host last weekend. Saskatchewan won the game last weekend on the road by a score of 27-16 and managed to clinch a spot in the playoffs with the victory, which makes them the 3rd team to have clinched a playoff spot already.

The Argonauts looked flat in the 1st half of last week’s game, but looked even worse by the 2nd half. Lemon didn’t play in the game due to an injury and Bell played in his place and managed to complete 16 of 24 passes for 153 yards. He completed a good amount of his passes last week, but he didn’t have any TD’s and only a hair over 150 passing yards, which isn’t going to cut it in the CFL. It was nice to see Boyd get the running game going last week though, as he managed to gain 145 yards on 20 carries.

Edmonton Eskimos (4-9) will travel to Ontario this weekend to take on the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (6-7). These two teams met last week in Edmonton and the Eskimos managed to win a very close game by the score of 37-35. Now that the game is in Hamilton, I really think the Ti-Cats should walk away with the win, but as we all know anything can happen. Both teams are fighting for the playoffs and could use the victory, so it should be a really hard fought game to kick the weekend off.

Last week these two teams played a great football game that was close the entire way through. The game was tied at half, but Edmonton managed to outscore Hamilton in the 3rd quarter (3-2) and the 4th quarter (10-9) to secure a 2-point victory. Both QB’s looked great with Glenn completing 26 of 37 passes for 294 yards, 2 TD’s and 1 INT while Ray ended the game going 28 of 36 through the air for 384 yards and 2 TD’s.