2017 CIS football season
| 2017 U Sports football season | ||||
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| Regular season | ||||
| Duration | August 25 – October 28 | |||
| Playoffs | ||||
| Start date | October 28 | |||
| Hardy Cup | Calgary Dinos | |||
| Yates Cup | Western Mustangs | |||
| Dunsmore Cup | Laval Rouge et Or | |||
| Loney Bowl | Acadia Axemen | |||
| Mitchell Bowl | Laval Rouge et Or | |||
| Uteck Bowl | Western Mustangs | |||
| Vanier Cup | ||||
| Date | November 25 | |||
| Site | Hamilton, Ontario | |||
| Champions | Western Mustangs | |||
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| 2017 AUS standings | |||||||||||
| Team | W | L | PF | PA | Pts | Ply | |||||
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| #7 Acadia | 6 | - | 2 | 226 | - | 193 | 12 | † | |||
| #8 Saint Mary's | 5 | - | 3 | 209 | - | 149 | 10 | X | |||
| St. FX | 4 | - | 4 | 179 | - | 168 | 8 | X | |||
| Mount Allison | 4 | - | 4 | 235 | - | 211 | 8 | ||||
| Bishop's | 1 | - | 7 | 158 | - | 286 | 2 | ||||
| † – Conference Champion Rankings: U Sports Top 10 |
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| 2017 RSEQ standings | |||||||||||
| Team | W | L | PF | PA | Pts | Ply | |||||
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| #1 Laval | 7 | - | 1 | 266 | - | 77 | 14 | † | |||
| #3 Montréal | 6 | - | 1 | 176 | - | 93 | 12 | X | |||
| Concordia | 3 | - | 4 | 181 | - | 173 | 6 | X | |||
| Sherbrooke | 2 | - | 6 | 139 | - | 242 | 4 | X | |||
| McGill | 1 | - | 7 | 105 | - | 282 | 2 | ||||
| † – Conference Champion Rankings: U Sports Top 10 * The October 5 game between Montreal and Concordia was cancelled due to a flu virus. |
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| 2017 OUA standings | |||||||||||
| Team | W | L | PF | PA | Pts | Ply | |||||
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| #2 Western | 8 | - | 0 | 386 | - | 105 | 16 | † | |||
| #5 Laurier | 6 | - | 2 | 308 | - | 175 | 12 | X | |||
| #10 McMaster | 6 | - | 2 | 209 | - | 115 | 12 | X | |||
| Ottawa | 5 | - | 3 | 190 | - | 215 | 10 | X | |||
| Guelph | 5 | - | 3 | 293 | - | 196 | 10 | X | |||
| Queen's | 4 | - | 4 | 290 | - | 223 | 8 | X | |||
| Waterloo | 4 | - | 4 | 299 | - | 339 | 8 | ||||
| Carleton | 3 | - | 5 | 222 | - | 232 | 6 | ||||
| Windsor | 1 | - | 7 | 142 | - | 362 | 2 | ||||
| York | 1 | - | 7 | 163 | - | 340 | 2 | ||||
| Toronto | 1 | - | 7 | 108 | - | 308 | 2 | ||||
| † – Conference Champion Rankings: U Sports Top 10 |
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| 2017 Canada West standings | |||||||||||
| Team | W | L | PF | PA | Pts | Ply | |||||
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| #4 Calgary | 7 | - | 1 | 340 | - | 224 | 14 | † | |||
| #6 British Columbia | 6 | - | 2 | 231 | - | 172 | 12 | X | |||
| #9 Regina | 4 | - | 4 | 259 | - | 283 | 8 | X | |||
| Alberta | 3 | - | 5 | 275 | - | 276 | 6 | X | |||
| Saskatchewan | 2 | - | 6 | 245 | - | 250 | 4 | ||||
| Manitoba | 2 | - | 6 | 180 | - | 289 | 2 | ||||
| † – Conference Champion Rankings: U Sports Top 10 |
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The 2017 U Sports football season began on August 25 with the St. Francis Xavier X-Men visiting the Saint Mary's Huskies in Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Montreal Carabins visiting the Concordia Stingers in Montreal, Quebec. The season concluded on November 25 with the 53rd Vanier Cup championship at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, Ontario. This season saw the first conference shift since 2001 with the Bishop's Gaiters moving from the Quebec Student Sport Federation to the Atlantic University Sport conference. 27 university teams in Canada participated in the newly re-branded U Sports football, the highest level of amateur Canadian football. The Western Mustangs defeated the Laval Rouge et Or, 39-17, to win their first Vanier Cup since 1994.
On December 15, 2016, Bishop's University Athletics and Atlantic University Sport (AUS) announced that the Bishop's Gaiters would be joining the AUS conference beginning in 2017. The move increases the number of teams competing in the AUS from four to five, while reducing the teams in the Quebec Student Sport Federation (RSEQ) from six to five. It also marked the first time since 1990 that the AUS had more than four teams, when the University College of Cape Breton played for one season before disbanding. This change also brought an end to the scheduled interlocking play with the RSEQ that had been in place since 2002.
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