The CFL playoffs kick off this weekend — here's a look at both matchups

The road to the 113th Grey Cup ramps up Saturday with the first round of the CFL playoffs, featuring a pair of matchups between teams with identical records.

After finishing fourth in the West Division, Winnipeg (9-9) crosses over to face second-place Toronto (9-9) in the East semifinal while B.C. (10-8) hosts defending champion Saskatchewan (10-8) in the West semi. Top seeds Montreal (14-4) and Edmonton (13-5) are enjoying a bye before hosting their respective division finals next week. The winners of those will play for the Grey Cup in Calgary on Nov. 15.

This is the last year before the CFL switches to a new playoff format that will see eight of the league's nine teams qualify and will include some non-elimination games. So, enjoy this while it lasts.

Here's a quick look at Saturday's matchups.

Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Toronto Argonauts (1 p.m. ET)

The Blue Bombers dipped into the playoffs with a 34-10 win last week over a B.C. team that had nothing to play for and rested many of its starters. Now they're 4.5-point underdogs against an Argos club quarterbacked by Chad Kelly, who just became the CFL's first million-dollar-a-year man since Doug Flutie in the 1990s. The 32-year-old inked a five-year extension on Tuesday worth $5.5M as the league heads into a more lucrative broadcasting rights deal.

Kelly, the CFL's most outstanding player in 2023 (and a nephew of Buffalo Bills great Jim Kelly) returned from a gruesome leg injury that cost him the entire 2025 season to post career highs in passing yards (5,067), touchdowns (33) and completion percentage (70.9) while throwing to a quartet of 1,000-yard receivers in Damonte Coxie, David Ungerer III, Tyler Kahmann and Kevin Mital. But he also uncorked a career-high 24