Ranking every CFL team’s 2026 schedule reveal

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Ranking every CFL team’s 2026 schedule reveal

Courtesy: BC Lions

The 2026 CFL schedule was released on Tuesday, leading to… a number of key findings regarding the football calendar.

Perhaps the best part of the schedule is seeing what each of the league's nine teams has in store to attract attention and sell tickets. It has become the norm in professional sports to post themed videos on social media to mark the announcement and build anticipation for the coming year.

IN 3DownNationwe've taken the liberty of ranking all nine 2026 CFL schedules. Let's go.

9) Pathetic Toronto graphics

As has been the case in recent years, Toronto did nothing to celebrate the release of the CFL schedule other than releasing a generic image.

It's lazy and unacceptable to the attention economy and digital age we live in. Since the Argonauts did not put any effort into this, there is no point in wasting energy criticizing them.

Let's move on.

8) Saskatchewan hosts B-roll

It appears the Roughriders were too busy basking in the glow of their Gray Cup championship to put much effort into releasing the planned video.

This post did not include any original or scripted segments and was simply a compilation of B-roll and highlights from the 2025 season. Many of the clips look great, and it's clear that the team wants to advertise their championship for as long as possible. With that said, it seems a little lazy.

The best part of the video is the series of bloopers by Kian Shaffer-Baker as he tries and fails to read various commercials. At one point, he falls onto the lawn laughing and declares: “I’m leaving!” It was really funny.

There's nothing wrong with this video—it just doesn't measure up to most of the others released Tuesday. The Roughriders are currently on top of the CFL world and they should have celebrated with an elite video release.

7) Horse riding

The Stampeders revealed that Chelsea Drake, the team's rider, made a pseudo “get ready with me” video, which is a popular format on the Internet.

While she was doing her makeup, Drake finds blue and gold products and throws them across the room, declaring, “Ugh!” This served as a video way to preview Calgary's three regular season games against the Blue Bombers.

The rest of the project followed a similar pattern, with Drake finding a black uniform for Labor Day, opening a can of cat food for games with Hamilton and retrieving the Stampede Bowl trophy before this year's matchup with Toronto.

The drone shots of Drake's snowy property were beautiful and the horses, dogs and cats were cute. With that said, this video could have hit a lot harder. The Moose are Calgary's most hated rival and should be mercilessly roasted rather than given a free pass.

6) Hamilton is bowling

Tiger Cats had a lot of production value for its planned video, possibly thanks to a sponsor. With that said, the topic was a little strange.

It's not uncommon for teams to tap into online trends or celebrate local culture in their videos, so it was strange to see… bowling in the Tiger Cats movie? Is Hamilton famous for bowling? If so, then I was not aware.

References to other CFL teams were cleverly sprinkled throughout the video: a watermelon was spotted on a ball return, a pair of cowboy boots was placed in a row of bowling shoes, and a moose served via an assist ramp still ended up in the gutter.

I kept waiting to see if the team would make some kind of cross-reference between “Bo Levi Mitchell” and “Bowling”, but it never happened – perhaps because franchise quarterback is a pending free agent And has not yet committed to playing in 2026.

5) Big Joe's Workshop

Entering from the nation's capital, team mascot Big Joe played in his workshop, where he played with toys representing other CFL franchises.

Some of these connections were more obvious than others, with Joe throwing around a toy bird for the Alouettes, making a wooden horse for the Stampeders, and playing with a combine harvester for the Roughriders. However, for the Argonauts, Joe poured water into a trash can and then pretended to reel in a rubber ducky, using his ax as a mock reel. It was a little strange.

In a wild twist, Joe referenced lions by taking a DVD copy of the 2008 film Madagascar: Escape from Africa 2, sketching other characters and emphatically circling the lion. Then he smashed the disk and trampled the pieces. It's unclear why Ottawa couldn't find the toy lion, but the DVD made for a whimsical and fun prop.

The Redblacks also took careful shots at opposing teams with clumsily produced booklets labeled “Crisis Communications 101: The Toronto Story,” “The Water Cycle of the Pacific Northwest: A Survival Guide for British Columbia,” “The Alouette Cookbook: Humble Pie Recipes” and “Rider Nation: The Joys of Wheat Farming.”

4) “ElkTok”

In the video, Panther, Edmonton's anthropomorphic football mascot, took to the fictional social network ElkTok to watch a series of videos.

First up was a panel of pundits criticizing the Redblacks, one of whom said Justin Trudeau's relationship with Katy Perry was “someone in Ottawa finally (reaching) the end zone.”

The next segment was a mukbang-style video of someone eating poutine—gratuitous slurping noises and all—that served as a preview of Edmonton's games against Montreal.

Other segments included statements about there being “absolutely nothing” to do in Winnipeg, watermelons and beer cans being crushed by hydraulic presses, cats doing strange things, and a dig at what the video called a “Toronto accent”, which was actually just regular hockey slang.

Edmonton has struggled on the field in recent years, but on schedule day it was a decent performance off the field.

3) Alouettes go hunting.

Isaac Adeyemi-Bergland hosted a video release for Montreal celebrating his love of hunting. However, animal rights activists had no reason to fear as the veteran defensive lineman was armed with a paintball gun and was hunting people dressed in camouflage snowsuits, complete with jerseys, T-shirts and jackets from other CFL teams.

“The thing about elk is that they can grow up to 1,100 pounds,” Adeyemi-Bergland once said. “Another thing about moose is that they are incredibly easy to track.” The 29-year-old also spoke a lot of French in the video, which was impressive for a non-Quebec.

For reasons that remain unclear—perhaps the Alouettes feared the hunting theme would become repetitive—the video changed halfway through when Adeyemi-Bergland suddenly found himself in a small room where he began smashing things—a boat for the Argonauts, a plane for the Blue Bombers, and a watermelon for the bandits.

The video was funny, violent, bilingual and showcased Adeyemi-Berglund's personality. Overall it was very well done.

2) Test “Lion detector”

The Lions took advantage of a funny online trend when one of their players was subjected to a useless lie detector test.

The video begins with testers mistaking defensive end Jackson Findlay for franchise quarterback Nathan Rourke, both of whom bear a very real resemblance. When Rourke enters the room and realizes there's a mix-up, he glances at a reporter from TSN's Vancouver bureau and says, “You guys thought I was Jackson again? Who are you, Farhan Lalji?”

The rest of the video includes Rourke making self-deprecating jokes about his poor performance against Winnipeg and shouting, “It's our time!” during the Western final moments before Saskatchewan's successful comeback.

There were also shots fired at Hamilton receiver Kiondre Smith, the Argonauts for losing their head coach, Calgary for allowing BC to score 50 points in September and the Redblacks, who Rourke refused to roast, saying they had “been through enough.”

1) Winnipeg video game

The Blue Bombers have a history of creating these types of videos, often going much further than any other team in their attempts to mercilessly roast opposing teams. Some jokes can be downright nasty, which is probably a good thing if the goal is to get as much of a reaction as possible.

This year was no exception: Winnipeg released video game. Yes, this is a real retro-style single-player video game that can be played in its entirety by clicking Here.

Although the Blue Bombers didn't clownish their opponents in Regina – the team cited his nihilistic social media post that came just after Saskatchewan's Gray Cup win. at Princess Auto Stadium, it was a hard-working and fun event from a Winnipeg team that never pulls punches and knows how to get a reaction.

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