The 2023 U Sports football season began on August 25, 2023, with the defending champion

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visiting the

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. On the following day, ten

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teams, four

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teams, and two RSEQ opened their schedules on August 26, 2023. On the following weekend, the six

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teams opened their seasons on September 1, 2023. The conference championships will be played on the weekend of November 11, 2023, and the season will conclude on November 25, 2023, with the 58th Vanier Cup championship. The Vanier Cup game will be held at

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, for the first time in its history. 27

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teams in

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are scheduled to play

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, the highest level of

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. On September 23, Manitoba Bisons kicker Maya Turner became the first woman to play in a U Sports regular season football game. She ended up kicking the game winning field goal in overtime for the Bisons in their game against the Regina Rams.

Schedules

On January 19, 2023, the

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released their schedule which featured no major changes from the 2022 season, with 11 teams playing eight regular season games over nine weeks. The regular season will start on August 26, 2023, and end on October 21, 2023. Seven teams will qualify for the playoffs, which begin on October 28, 2023, with the top seed having a first-round bye. The 115th

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game is scheduled to be played on November 11, 2023. On April 20, 2023, the AUS schedule was revealed with the first two games scheduled to be played on August 26, 2023. Five AUS teams will play eight games over 10 weeks with each team receiving two bye weeks. In a format change this year, the top four teams will qualify for the AUS playoffs rather than three, with two semi-final games determining the participants for the AUS championship. The

schedule was announced on April 25, 2023, and the RSEQ schedule was revealed on April 27, 2023, with no major scheduling changes from the 2022 U Sports football season.

Regular season

Standings

Post-season

The

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is played between the champions of the

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and the

Uteck Bowl The Uteck Bowl is one of the two semifinal bowls of U Sports football, Canada's national competition for university teams that play Canadian football. It is held in the easternmost of the two semifinal venues. The Uteck Bowl champion moves on to f ...

, the national semi-final games. In 2023, according to the rotating schedule, the Atlantic conference's

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championship team will visit the Canada West

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winners for the Mitchell Bowl. The

Ontario conference championship team will visit the Québec conference

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winners for the Uteck Bowl. These games are scheduled to be played on November 18, 2023, while the Vanier Cup is scheduled to be played on November 25, 2023.

References

External links

Official website
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