The Hamilton Tiger-Cats will be looking to end a 21-year CFL championship drought when they host the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Sunday night as 3.5-point underdogs on the Grey Cup odds at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
Hamilton needed a big effort to overcome a 12-0 halftime deficit on their way to a 27-19 win over the rival Toronto Argonauts in last weekend’s CFL Eastern Final, which gave them a berth in Sunday’s Grey Cup matchup at home at Tim Hortons Field. The Tiger-Cats last won the Grey Cup back in 1999.
And the Tiger-Cats will be trying to avenge their loss to Winnipeg in the 2019 Grey Cup after posting straight-up wins in six of their past seven games. The team powered its way to a second-place finish in the East Division standings this season on the strength of a steady 5-2 SU record on home turf. That bodes well for the Tiger-Cats, who are aiming to become the third team to raise the Grey Cup on home turf over the past decade.
However, the Tiger-Cats face a tough task to overcome their current run of futility against the defending Grey Cup-champion Blue Bombers. Hamilton extended its Grey Cup losing streak to three games with a 33-12 loss to the Blue Bombers two years ago in Calgary, and put up little resistance in a 19-6 loss in Winnipeg to open this season. That was the only meeting between the Blue Bombers and the Tiger-Cats during the 2021 regular season.
The Blue Bombers, meanwhile, will be looking to cap a stellar 2021 season during which they averaged 25.8 points per game while racking up a league-best 11-3-0 record. Despite sporting the CFL’s top offence, though, Winnipeg is riding a four-game against-the-spread losing streak at online sports betting sites.
In addition, low-scoring results have been commonplace when the Tiger-Cats and the Blue Bombers have met in recent years, which has powered a steady 11-0 run for the UNDER on the totals at the sportsbooks in their matchups dating back to August 2015.
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