The Saskatchewan Roughriders have resumed being the hold-on-tight Saskatchewan Roughriders .

Those Roughriders who recently thrashed the Montreal Alouettes and Hamilton Tiger-Cats before getting manhandled by the Calgary Stampeders for a second time, they weren’t really the typical hold-on-tight, this-could-be-quite-a-finish squad that beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 34-30 in Sunday’s Labour Day Classic before a record-setting crowd of 34,243 at Mosaic Stadium.

“We’re just happy we got a win against a really good football team after a licking-our-wounds kind of week,” said Roughriders head coach/defensive co-ordinator Corey Mace during his postgame media scrum.

Throughout most of their 2025 CFL games, the Roughriders have followed a familiar M.O. — sluggish start, enough sensatio

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