The 2015

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season began on August 30, 2015 with ten

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teams playing that day. The season concluded on November 28 with the

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defeating the

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26-23 in the

51st Vanier Cup The 2015 Vanier Cup, the 51st edition of the Canadian university football championship took place on Saturday, November 28, 2015 at Telus Stadium in Quebec City, Quebec. It was the fourth time that the city of Quebec has hosted the Vanier Cup. Fo ...

championship at

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.Laval to host 2015 Vanier Cup in Quebec City
from

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, 8 December 2014, retrieved 2014-12-09. This year, 27

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teams in

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played

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, the highest level of

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Regular season standings

Top 10

Ranks in ''italics'' are teams not ranked in the top 10 poll but received votes.
NR = Not Ranked, received no votes.
Number in parentheses denotes number votes, after the dash number of first place votes.

Post-season awards

All-Canadian team

First team

;Offence : QB – Andrew Buckley – Calgary : RB – Dillon Campbell – Laurier : RB – Mercer Timmis – Calgary : IR – Mitch Hillis – Saskatchewan : IR – Ian Stewart – Ottawa : WR –

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– Calgary : WR –

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– McMaster : C –

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– Calgary : G – Charles Vaillancourt – Laval : G –

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– Western : T – Braden Schram – Calgary : T –

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– Laval ;Defence : DT –

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– Manitoba : DT – Samuel Narkaj – Concordia : DE –

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– Laval : DE – Jesse St. James – Acadia : LB – John Rush – Guelph : LB – Drew Morris – Acadia : LB – Doctor Cassama – Calgary : FS – Jesse McNair – Western : HB –

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– Calgary : HB – Maïko Zepeda – Montreal : CB – Godrey Onyeka – Laurier : CB – Adam Laurensse – Calgary ;Special teams : P – Quinn van Gylswyk – British Columbia : K –

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– Calgary : RET – Tunde Adeleke – Carleton

Second team

;Offence : QB – Will Finch – Western : RB – Alex Taylor – Western : RB – Ashton Dickson – St. Francis Xavier : IR –

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– Acadia : IR –

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– Alberta : WR – Yanic Lessard – Concordia : WR – Jacob Scarfone – Guelph : C – Matthew Van Praet – Western : G – Darius Ciraco – Calgary : G – Philippe Gagnon – Laval : T – Eddie Meredith – Western : T – Vernon Sainvil – St. Francis Xavier ;Defence : DT – Donovan Dale – British Columbia : DT – Adam Melanson – Acadia : DE – Kwaku Boateng – Laurier : DE – Jonathan Boissonneault-Glaou – Montreal : LB – Shayne Gauthier – Laval : LB – Jake Heathcote – McMaster : LB – Micah Teitz – Calgary : FS – Kwame Adjei – Mount Allison : HB – Nicholas Parisotto – Guelph : HB – Mikaël Charland – Concordia : CB – Alex Hovington – Laval : CB – Devante Sampson – Mount Allison ;Special teams : P – Félix Ménard-Brière – Montreal : K – Gabriel Ferraro – Guelph : RET – Jamel Lyles – Manitoba

Championships

The Vanier Cup is played between the champions of the

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and the

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, the national semi-final games. In 2015, according to the rotating schedule, the Canada West

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championship team will visit the Atlantic conference's

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championship team for the Uteck Bowl. The winners of the Québec conference

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will visit the

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Ontario championship team for the Mitchell Bowl.

Playoff bracket

The seed of the OUA Semi-Final is done so that the first-place team play the weakest team still alive.

Teams

References

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