U SPORTS Football Weekend Watch  Regular season comes to an end, playoffs get under way in OUA

U SPORTS TORONTO – Week 10 of the U SPORTS football season marks the start of the playoffs in Ontario and the end of league play in the three other conferences.

 

 

The OUA post-season kicks off on Saturday afternoon with quarter-final action from Hamilton, where nationally seventh-ranked McMaster hosts Queen’s, and from the nation’s capital, where No. 9 Guelph visits Ottawa. Both matchups are set for 1 p.m. and can be seen live on OUA.TV.

 

In Quebec, the only conference where first place has yet to be decided, No. 2 Laval would get the nod with a win at Concordia on Friday evening (7 p.m., StretchTV webcast). Montreal, which faces McGill at 2 p.m. on Saturday (TVA Sports), can still finish atop the standings with a victory combined to a Rouge et Or loss.

 

Bye: No. 3 Western (8-0), No. 5 Laurier (6-2), No. 10 Acadia (6-2), Sherbrooke (2-6).

Out of OUA playoffs: Waterloo (4-4), Carleton (3-5), Toronto (1-7), Windsor (1-7), York (1-7).

 

 

7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT

No. 2 Laval (6-1) at Concordia (3-3), (StretchTV)

 

1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT

(OUA quarter-finals) Queen’s (4-4) at No. 7 McMaster (6-2), (OUA.TV)

(OUA quarter-finals) No. 9 Guelph (5-3) at Ottawa (5-3), (OUA.TV)

Mount Allison (3-4) at Saint Mary’s (5-2), (AUStv.ca)

 

Bishop’s (1-6) at StFX (3-4), (Bell Aliant Fibe TV1 & AUStv.ca)

McGill (1-6) at No. 4 Montreal (5-1), (TVA Sports)

 

Alberta (2-5) at No. 1 Calgary (7-0), (CanadaWest.TV)

 

No. 8 Regina (4-3) at No. 6 UBC (5-2), (CanadaWest.TV)

 

Manitoba (1-6) at Saskatchewan (2-5), (Sasktel maxTV, TELUS Optik TV, Bell MTS & CanadaWest.TV)

 

Full Football Weekend Watch available at USPORTS.ca

 

Sportsnet and TVA Sports are once again the official broadcasters of the U SPORTS football semifinals and final in 2017… The Uteck Bowl (OUA at AUS, 12:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 am PT) and the  Mitchell Bowl (RSEQ at Canada West, 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT) are set for Saturday, Nov. 18, while the ArcelorMittal Dofasco Vanier Cup follows on Saturday, Nov. 25 at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton… For all the information on the 53rd Vanier Cup (including tickets) visit vaniercup.com.

 

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Ken Saint-Eloy

Senior Manager, Communications

U SPORTS

Cell: 647-871-7595