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Date | November 29, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Stadium | Investors Group Field | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Winnipeg, Manitoba | ||||||||||||||||||
Most Valuable Player | Mike Reilly | ||||||||||||||||||
Most Valuable Canadian | Shamawd Chambers | ||||||||||||||||||
National anthem | Bobby Bazini | ||||||||||||||||||
Coin toss | Jeffrey Orridge | ||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Al Bradbury | ||||||||||||||||||
Halftime show | Fall Out Boy | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 36,634 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Network | Canada (English): TSN Canada (French): RDS United States: ESPN2 |
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Announcers |
Chris Cuthbert (play-by-play) Glen Suitor (analyst) Sara Orlesky (sideline reporter) Farhan Lalji (sideline reporter) |
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Ratings | 4.3 million (average) 9.7 million (total) |
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The 103rd Grey Cup was a Canadian football game that was played on November 29, 2015 between the East Division champion Ottawa Redblacks and the West Division champion Edmonton Eskimos to decide the Canadian Football League (CFL) championship for the 2015 season. The game was played at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Shaw Communications was the presenting sponsor of the game; it was the first time in CFL history that the Grey Cup has been sponsored. The Eskimos won the contest 26–20 to claim their 14th Grey Cup championship in franchise history and first since 2005. Mike Reilly was named Most Valuable Player and Shamawd Chambers received the Dick Suderman Trophy as Most Valuable Canadian.
On 24 March 2014, news agencies reported that the game would be awarded to Winnipeg. Two days later on 26 March 2014, it was announced at a news conference that Investors Group Field in Winnipeg, Manitoba, will play host to the 103rd Grey Cup. It was the fourth time Winnipeg played host to a Grey Cup, and the first since 2006. Although the game was sold out, the attendance figure of 36,634 was the second lowest for a Grey Cup game since 1975.
The Redblacks joined the CFL as an expansion team in 2014 and finished last in the league with a 2–16 record. Led by 40-year-old Henry Burris, who became the oldest quarterback in CFL history to lead the league in passing yards (5,693), the Redblacks won the East Division title in 2015 with a 12–6 record. It marked the first time since the 1978 Ottawa Rough Riders that any team from Ottawa won a division title, while 12 wins in the season is the highest total of any Ottawa-based Canadian football team in league history.