What to watch this weekend in Canadian sports

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From winter Olympic sports to the golf course to the gridiron, there's a wide variety for Canadian fans to enjoy this weekend. Here are some things to watch:

Football: Vanier Cup and a Canadian star in a big U.S. college game

Last weekend's Grey Cup may have marked the spiritual end of the Canadian football season, but fans north of the border should know about a couple big games on Saturday afternoon.

The first is the U.S. college game of the week between No. 2 Ohio State and No. 5 Indiana, which kicks off at noon ET at the Buckeyes' famed 100,000-seat Ohio Stadium (aka the Horseshoe).

That sentence might not sound very Canadian, but Indiana's quarterback is. Kurtis Rourke (the brother of 2022 CFL Most Outstanding Canadian Nathan Rourke) has the third-best passer rating in all of college football and is a top-five Heisman Trophy candidate after leading Indiana (normally thought of as a basketball school) to a shocking 10-0 start. The Hoosiers are 10-point underdogs against perennial contender Ohio State, but if they at least keep it close it should cement their place in the playoff bracket, which is expanding to 12 teams this year. Here's more on Rourke's big test. 

At 1 p.m. ET, the Canadian university national championship will be decided as second-ranked Wilfrid Laurier faces No. 3 Laval in the Vanier Cup game in Kingston, Ont. Laval beat defending champ Montreal twice this year, including in the Quebec conference final, while Laurier is undefeated and features Hec Crighton Trophy winner Taylor Elgersma at quarterback. 

You can watch the Vanier Cup live on the CBC