TORONTO — It’s Thanksgiving weekend and why not incorporate some CFL football into your plans? After all, this weekend features three Live Mic Broadcasts.

It all starts on Friday night when the Roughriders play a visit to the nation’s capital. Saskatchewan will be well rested when they take the field in Week 16 after spending last week on a bye. The Riders have won two games in a row and look to have started to turn their season around. The REDBLACKS, meanwhile, hold just a single point lead over the Tiger-Cats for the top of the East. Although Ottawa didn’t come away with two points last week, their offence came alive as Trevor Harris threw for 485 yards and two touchdowns. Saskatchewan will be looking to keep rolling while Ottawa hopes to bounce back.

The action then moves to Winnipeg where the Blue Bombers host the BC Lions. Both teams will be fighting for position in the West, as the Lions only hold a two point lead over the Bombers for second place. If the Lions come out on top, they’ll clinch a playoff spot for the 20th consecutive year. If the Bombers get the victory, they’ll snap a two-game losing skid and tie BC in points for second place. A lot is on the line for the West Division foes.

In the first half of the CFL doubleheader on Monday, the Edmonton Eskimos visit Montreal to take on the Alouettes. Montreal grabbed their first win under new head coach Jacques Chapdelaine last week taking down the Toronto Argonauts. This week will be a test for the Als when they host the reigning Grey Cup Champions. It won’t be an easy feat for Montreal, as the Esks boast a dangerous offence led by Mike Reilly. Edmonton has proven they can get it done through the air and on the ground, giving the Alouette defence a tough task on Monday afternoon.

And finally, the Stampeders head to BMO Field in the second half of Monday’s doubleheader for a tussle with the Argonauts. Calgary now holds the longest unbeaten streak within one season after they’ve gone 13 games without a loss. They also clinched a home playoff game with their win last week over the Tiger-Cats. After releasing three of their top receivers last week following their loss to Montreal, the Argos will be looking to their younger receivers to try to make things happen this week. Despite losing seven of their last eight contests, the Boatmen still very much in the playoff race in the East.

BUY WEEK 16 TICKETS

» Friday, 7:00 p.m. ET: Saskatchewan at Ottawa
» Saturday, 4:00 p.m. ET: BC at Winnipeg
» Monday, 1:00 p.m. ET: Edmonton at Montreal
» Monday, 4:00 p.m. ET: Calgary at Toronto

THIS WEEK IN THE CFL

QB sacks: Over the past two seasons, 30 different starting quarterbacks have been sacked multiple times. Trevor Harris leads this dubious category, having been sacked 72 times in the past two seasons. However, he has also led his teams on 60 TD drives, the second most for any quarterback in that span and the fourth-best TD% (17.5%). In comparison to Harris, Bo Levi Mitchell has started in six more games and has 33 fewer sacks and 23 more touchdowns with a 19.3% TD%. Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Zach Collaros owns the best TD% in 2016 (22.5%) ahead of BC’s Jonathan Jennings (19.9%).

Mitchell & Ploen through 48 games: Kenny Ploen went 40-8 (.833) in his first 48 QB starts between 1957-1960. Calgary’s Bo Levi Mitchell has an even better record of 40-7-1 (.844) through the first 48 games. Mitchell will try to join Ploen by matching his record for the longest winning streak by a starting QB. Ploen won 12 games in a row in 1961; Mitchell enters Week 16 with 11 wins in a row and the potential to make it 12 when the Stampeders take on the Toronto Argonauts this Monday. Another CFL great that Mitchell could pull ahead of is Warren Moon. Moon owns the record for longest unbeaten streak by a starting quarterback, set at 13 games in 1981-82.

Stamps streak: In the games remaining in 2016, Calgary can extend their streak to a possible 14, which would be the longest single season streak in CFL history and the third-longest winning streak of all time. They can join two other clubs who went unbeaten in 14 games in a row (EDM 1981-1982 and BC 2004-2005).

High scoring Week 15: Last week in the CFL teams compiled a combined 241 points, an average of 60.3 points per game. That’s the highest average since Week 2 in 2015 where there was an average of 60.8 points per game. There were 24 touchdowns scored last week, or an average of six touchdowns per game – the highest for any week this season.

Yards on yards: Week 15 averaged 802 yards per game. That’s equivalent to every team each scoring 30 points and 400 yards per game. The BC vs. Ottawa game led the charge: Jennings and Harris combined for 833 passing yards and 998 yards of net offence (Ottawa had 529 yards).

» PHOTOS OF THE WEEK: THE BEST PHOTOS FROM WEEK 15

WEEK 16 GAME NOTES

Catching balls: Andy Fantuz caught 15 passes for 130 yards against Calgary last week. That matches the second-highest total of catches in a single regular season game. The all-time record is 16 and is held by four players: Harry Greer (TOR, 1983), Brian Wiggins (CGY, 1993), Derrell Mitchell (TOR, 1998) and most recently Arland Bruce (HAM, 2010). Fantuz also extended his streak of games with at least one reception to 72. Don Narcisse recorded 216 straight games with a catch (1987-1999).

Team 100: Solomon Elimimian reached 100 tackles on the season after his 13-tackle performance in Week 15. He is on pace for 138 tackles, five short of the record he set in 2014.

Team 100 x2: Elimimian’s teammate Adam Bighill is on pace to reach 100 tackles and is currently 11 tackles short. No CFL team has ever had multiple players with 100 or more tackles in the same season.

Team 100 x3: Bear Woods is three tackles short of 100 on the season.

West Dominance: The West has won 10 straight games against East Division opponents and is 15-8-1 overall this season. The last time an East team won versus a West team was August 20^th when Hamilton beat Saskatchewan 53-7. The longest streak by one division over the other is 20 games, set by the West in 2008.

Reilly, Reilly good: Edmonton QB Mike Reilly is currently on pace to pass for 6,053 yards this season. He needs to average 323 yards per game to reach the elusive 6,000-yard mark.

Double trouble: Mike Reilly and Bo Levi Mitchell each have 11 games with 300+ passing yards this season.

Challenge update: Last week there were eight challenges in four games. Since the rule change on coaches’ challenges, challenges have dropped 12% to 2.17 per game. The percentage of challenges resulting in overturned rulings has stayed the same at about 41%.

Making catches: Adarius Bowman has recorded 103 receptions this season. He is on pace for 132 receptions, which would be the second-highest amount of receptions in a regular season of all-time.

Scoring race: Justin Medlock retook the lead with 172 points, four ahead of Rene Paredes’ 168. Each of them threaten the CFL field-goal record of 59 in one season. Medlock has 45 field goals and Paredes has 46 – the record is 59, set by David Ridgway in 1990.

The Lemonator: Shawn Lemon has made nine sacks in his last seven games to take over the league lead with 12 sacks this season.