CIS season starts Monday

OTTAWA – The start of the 2014 CIS football regular season is only four days away. A grand total of 124 games will be played across the country over the next three months, culminating with the 50^thTELUS Vanier Cup on November 29 at Percival Molson Memorial Stadium in Montreal.

League play gets under way on Monday with five contests in the OUA conference. The action kicks off the following weekend in the AUS, RSEQ and Canada West.

A number of pre-season matches have already been played over the past week and more are scheduled this weekend, including a rematch of last year’s national final between the Calgary Dinos and the reigning champion Laval Rouge et Or, Saturday afternoon in Quebec City.

Leading up to the 50^th TELUS Vanier Cup on Nov. 29, this year’s CIS semifinals – both set for Nov. 22 – will see the Canada West champions visit the RSEQ titlists (Uteck Bowl) and the AUS champs travel to Ontario to take on the winners of the OUA banner (ArcelorMittal Mitchell Bowl).

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All the information on the 50^th TELUS Vanier Cup (including ticket info) can be found at vaniercup.com.

Once again this year, members of Football Reporters of Canada will vote for the weekly national Top 10 ranking, which will be released every Tuesday starting on Sept. 2. The CIS football players of the week – also selected by a panel of FRC members – will be announced each Wednesday, starting on Sept. 3.

Below is the schedule for weeks 1 and 2 of the regular season as well as the playoffs, including TV and web streaming info. The complete 2014 schedule is posted at cis-sic.ca.

2014 CIS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE: WEEKS 1 & 2 (all times local)

September 1 

13:00   Queen’s at Windsor (TVCogeco & OUA.TV)

13:00   Carleton at Waterloo (OUA.TV)

13:00   York at Ottawa (OUA.TV)

13:00   Guelph at McMaster (Cable 14 Hamilton & OUA.TV)

19:00   Laurier at Toronto (OUA.TV)

September 5

17:30   Alberta at Calgary (CanadaWest.TV)

19:00   StFX at Saint Mary’s (AUStv.ca)

19:00   Manitoba at Saskatchewan (Shaw TV & CanadaWest.TV)

19:00   UBC at Regina (CanadaWest.TV)

September 6

13:00   Toronto at Guelph (OUA.TV)

13:00   Ottawa at Queen’s (OUA.TV)

13:00   McMaster at Waterloo (OUA.TV)

13:00   Western at York (OUA.TV)

13:00   Laurier at Windsor (TVCogeco & OUA.TV)

13:00   Bishop’s at Concordia (Radio-Canada & ici.radio-canada.ca & StretchTV)

14:00   Acadia at Mount Allison (Eastlink TV & AUStv.ca)

16:00   McGill at Sherbrooke

19:00   Montreal at Laval (ici.radio-canada.ca Quebec)

2014 CIS FOOTBALL PLAYOFF SCHEDULE (all times local)

November 1

14:00   AUS semifinal 3 vs. 2 (Eastlink TV & AUStv.ca)

TBD     OUA quarter-final 6 vs. 3 (OUA.TV)

TBD     OUA quarter-final 5 vs. 4 (OUA.TV)

November 7

TBD     Canada West semifinal 4 vs. 1 (Shaw TV & CanadaWest.TV)

November 8

13:00   RSEQ semifinal 4 vs. 1 (Radio-Canada & ici.radio-canada.ca)

13:00   RSEQ semifinal 3 vs. 2 (Radio-Canada & ici.radio-canada.ca)

14:00   AUS final: Loney Bowl (Eastlink TV & AUStv.ca)

TBD     OUA semifinal #1 (OUA.TV)

TBD     OUA semifinal #2 (OUA.TV)

TBD     Canada West semifinal 3 vs. 2 (Shaw TV & CanadaWest.TV)

November 15

13:00   RSEQ final: Dunsmore Cup (Radio-Canada & ici.radio-canada.ca)

TBD     OUA final: Yates Cup (OUA.TV)

TBD     Canada West final: Hardy Cup (Shaw TV & CanadaWest.TV)

November 22

12:30   Uteck Bowl: Canada West at RSEQ (Sportsnet & Radio-Canada)

16:00   ArcelorMittal Mitchell Bowl: AUS at OUA (Sportsnet & Radio-Canada)

November 29

13:00   50^th TELUS Vanier Cup: Percival Molson Stadium, Montreal (Sportsnet & Radio-Canada)

About the 50^th TELUS Vanier Cup

Canadian Interuniversity Sport will celebrate the 50^th TELUS Vanier Cup throughout its 2014 football season. For the first time in history, the championship game will be staged in Montreal – at Percival Molson Memorial Stadium – on Saturday, November 29, at 1 p.m. ET, live on Sportsnet and Radio-Canada.

Official TELUS Vanier Cup website (including ticket information) www.vaniercup.com