CFL.ca Staff
MONTREAL — The Quebec Student Sport Federation (QSSF) and Atlantic University Sport (AUS) are pleased to announce the continuation of their inter-locking university football schedule through the 2012 season.
Over the three-year period, each Quebec based university football team will play two interlock games with the AUS, one in the Maritimes and one at home, while each of the four atlantic universities will play one interlock game each season.
With today’s announcement, the QSSF football schedule will increase from eight (8) to nine (9) games effective the 2010 season. “We are extremely happy that we can continue our partnership with the AUS,” said Patricia Demers, director of university programs for QSSF. “We believe that this agreement meets the objectives of both the AUS and QSSF and significantly contributes to the development of Canadian university football while meeting the demands from our Quebec universities to increase the number of regular season games.”
Quebec Student Sport Federation and Atlantic University Sport are the only two regional associations in Canada to play inter-conference football games during the regular season. “We are extremely pleased with the opportunity to continue the football interlock with the QSSF and their member schools,” said Phil Currie, executive director of Atlantic University Sport. “After much discussion and brain-storming, we have developed a three-year interlock agreement and a new interlock format which will allow each conference to work on and develop areas that are unique to each conference while maintaining regular season competition between them. We both knew that status quo was not an option and worked from that premise which proved to be a successful approach.”
In 2010, the inter-conference games will be contested on Saturday September 18 during the third week of regular season competition. The rotation of opponents will be based upon the previous season’s standings. The proposed 2010 match-ups are as follows :
Laval at Saint Mary’s
Montreal at StFX
Acadia at Bishop’s
Mount Allison at Sherbrooke
The McGill Redmen and Concordia Stingers are currently not scheduled to play any inter-conferences game in 2010.
The addition of a ninth regular season game in Quebec means the elimination of the bye-week for all teams over the Thanksgiving weekend. Each season, three teams will play five (5) home games, while the remaining three will play five (5) on the road. Over the next six years, all teams will play an equal number of home and road games. The full QSSF 2010 football schedule will be released in February.
