2023 USports Football

[Mocha]

U Sports Top ten rankings are out. Do you agree or disagree with any of them?


https://usports.ca/en/sports/footbal...cisive-victory

Real early to tell. I suspect St.FX shouldn't be ranked that high, just cause they're in the AUS.

I also have a feeling UBC might crack the top 5 by season's end. They were able to pick up quite a few players from SFU.

[Mocha]

This week's schedule:


Friday

Montreal at Concordia
Sherbrooke at McGill

Alberta at Calgary
Saskatchewan at Manitoba
UBC at Regina


Saturday

2 PM EDT
StFX at Acadia
https://austv.ca/watch/32

3 PM EDT
St. Mary's at Bishop's
https://austv.ca/watch/33


Sunday

1 PM EDT
Carleton at Laurier
https://oua.tv/watch/21

6 PM EDT
York at Waterloo
https://oua.tv/watch/22

7 PM EDT
Ottawa at Toronto
https://oua.tv/watch/25

Guelph at Windsor
https://oua.tv/watch/24

McMaster at Western
https://oua.tv/watch/23

[Mocha]

Well well well . . . that's an interesting halftime score. Have the Huskies fallen from last season, or are Bisons just that much better.

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Edit:

I posed those questions too soon. Sask turns it on in the second half to win 30-27!

[jerrym]

Montreal Carabin second year QB Jonathan Senecal was named U Sports Player of the Week last week while going 26/30 for 397 yards with 4 TD passes in a 43-11 win over McGill.
St. Francis Xavier DE Alex Fedchun was named Defensive Player of the week after recording 2.5 sacks and eight tackles.
Kicker Thomas Veinot won ST player of the week after kicking a winning last minute FG.

https://3downnation.com/2023/08/30/m...s-of-the-week/

[Mocha]

So the UofS Huskies had a new QB making his debut last night. Maybe some early jitters, but he figured it out in the second half.


https://twitter.com/PRSVRE_/status/1698057017129148509?s=20

[Mocha]

York hanging tight with Waterloo so far--early in the second half.

Edit:

Lol, and things fall apart for the Lions in the 3rd Q.

[OV Argo]

Windsor with a big thumping of Guelph with a big ground game attack = love to see that in Canadian ball still.

Western's run game shut-down but they beat Mac in a pass heavy affair = WTF ?

[Mocha]

[jerrym]

Latest weekly rankings

https://usports.ca/en/sports/footbal...-weekly-top-10

[jerrym]

Usports Players of the Week: Alberta QB Eli Hetlinger - Offence; Montreal LB Nicky Farinaccio - Defence; and K Kieran Flannery-Fleck.

https://usports.ca/en/sports/footbal...rs-of-the-week

[Mocha]

Usports Players of the Week: Alberta QB Eli Hetlinger - Offence; Montreal LB Nicky Farinaccio - Defence; and K Kieran Flannery-Fleck.

https://usports.ca/en/sports/footbal...rs-of-the-week

Hetlinger and his Golden Bears receivers were putting up huge plays against Calgary. I'm not sure how much was Alberta's skill and how much was Calgary's lack thereof, but it's worth keeping an eye on the Alberta offense.

[Mocha]

[Mocha]

This weekend's schedule:

Friday

6 PM EDT
St. Mary's at Acadia
https://austv.ca/watch/46

Concordia at Sherbrooke

Regina at Saskatchewan

Manitoba at Alberta

Saturday

1 PM EDT
St.FX at Mount Allison
https://austv.ca/watch/51

Laurier at Guelph
https://oua.tv/watch/27

Windsor at Waterloo
https://oua.tv/watch/28

York at McMaster
https://oua.tv/watch/26

3 PM EDT
Queen's at Toronto
https://oua.tv/watch/29

Calgary at UBC

7 PM EDT
Western at Carleton
https://oua.tv/watch/30

McGill at Laval

[Mocha]

Carleton up on Western late in the first half. That's a bit of a surprise, but let's see if Western takes over in the 2nd half.

[OV Argo]

Carleton up on Western late in the first half. That's a bit of a surprise, but let's see if Western takes over in the 2nd half.

Western ground game back in order to beat Carleton.

Windsor is looking good with the power ground game - 3 headed RB monster.


Western travel to play Windsor on Sept. 30 - that might be a real interesting game of smash mouth, ground game football.

[Will]

Why does York even bother with a football program? This question is directed more out of anger, it is clear that the football program is not given the resources to succeed. It isn't like the NCAA where you have Div. 1 schools beat up on a Div. 2 school in the first few weeks of the season. With a 27-team field, it's harder in U Sports to hide disparity like this.

[Mocha]

[Mocha]

Why does York even bother with a football program? This question is directed more out of anger, it is clear that the football program is not given the resources to succeed. It isn't like the NCAA where you have Div. 1 schools beat up on a Div. 2 school in the first few weeks of the season. With a 27-team field, it's harder in U Sports to hide disparity like this.

Sadly, even having a second, lower division might not help this York team much.

Oh well, maybe they'll keep it relatively close against Toronto on October 6. Lots of lopsided losses between now and then, though.

Heh, just going through the USports stats and one positive for York might be that CFL teams will have loads of film on Alfred Olay as a kick returner. He has far and away more kickoff returns than any other player and is third best in yards/return.

[Mocha]

Western ground game back in order to beat Carleton.

Windsor is looking good with the power ground game - 3 headed RB monster.


Western travel to play Windsor on Sept. 30 - that might be a real interesting game of smash mouth, ground game football.

This week Windsor plays Ottawa, who's also doing quite well on the ground with Polk as their feature back.

[Mocha]

Some big games on the slate this weekend:

Montreal at Laval

Windsor at Ottawa
Western at Queens

Alberta at Saskatchewan