After 19 weeks of the regular season and two rounds of playoffs, it will be the best of the East verse the best of the West in this season’s CFL Grey Cup as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers will try and complete a worst-to-first transformation when to travel to Vancouver to square-off against the British Columbia Lions this upcoming Sunday night at 6:30 p.m ET.
Winnipeg earned a spot in the title game with a 19-3 victory over Hamilton this past Sunday in the East Division finals as a three-point home favorite. The total stayed well ‘under’ the 51-point line. <p> will get a shot at becoming the first team to win a Grey Cup on its home field since 1994 when it accomplished this feat against Baltimore. The Lions punched their ticket to the championship game with a 40-23 romp over Edmonton as six-point home favorites. The total in this one went way ‘over’ the 50-point line.
The following is a preview for Sunday’s 99th Grey Cup with the betting lines provided by BetOnline.
CFL Grey Cup Championship - Sunday, Nov. 27
Winnipeg Blue Bombers vs. British Columbia Lions
Line: BC (-7)
Over/Under: 50 ½
Winnipeg comes into this game with an overall record of 11-8 straight-up. It is 12-6-1 against the spread this season and the total has stayed ‘under’ in 12 of its 19 games. The Blue Bombers are 5-4 SU on the road and 5-3-1 ATS.
BC has compiled a record of 12-7 SU overall. It is 11-7 ATS and the total has stayed ‘under’ in 12 of its 18 games this season with a spread. The Lions are 7-3 at home SU and 6-4 ATS.
These two teams met twice this season with the Bombers taking both games SU and ATS. In Week 5, they rallied from a one-point deficit in the fourth quarter to pull-out a 25-20 victory as 2 ½ -point home favorites. The total stayed ‘under’ the 52-point line. Buck Pierce and Alex Brink combined for 258 yards passing and two touchdowns for Winnipeg and its defense sacked Lions’ quarterback Travis Lulay six times.
They met just two weeks later and this time Winnipeg rolled to a 30-17 win as a 1 ½-point road underdog. Once again, the total stayed ‘under’ against a closing line of 49 ½. This one was never really close as the Bombers closed-out the third quarter with a healthy 30-10 lead. This time around, Pierce went 18-for-24 for 237 yards and Brink ran for two scores in the lopsided win. This game may come back to actually haunt Winnipeg as it served as a wake-up call for the Lions, who went onto win 11 of their next 12 games SU on their march for to the title game.
The Blue Bombers are now 4-2 SU in their last six games against BC and 5-1 ATS. They are also 4-1-1 ATS in their last six trips to Vancouver. The total has stayed ‘under’ in eight of the last 10 meetings overall and has stayed ‘under’ in the last seven games played in BC.
Both Pierce and Lulay are listed on the current injury list as probable with minor injuries, but both should be ready to go come Sunday night. In the regular season, the Blue Bombers averaged 24 points a game and gave-up an average of 24 points a game, while the Lions averaged 28.4 points a game and gave-up an average of just 21.4 points.
