SASKATOON – There is no sense of desperation looming over the clubhouse of the Saskatchewan Huskies football team. The dogs seem loose, which is likely a good thing.
The players are treating this week as if it were any other week. But this isn’t any other week. If the Huskies don’t win on Friday, their season is over.
The 2015 campaign has been surprisingly unpleasant for the U of S Huskies. Saskatchewan entered the season as the eighth ranked team in the CIS, but here we are, less than two months later, and the Huskies are on the verge of not making the playoffs.
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The dogs sat with a 2-2 record at the halfway point in the campaign, before backing themselves into a corner by losing three games in a row.
Saskatchewan enters the final week of the regular season with a 2-5 record, meaning the Huskies need a win to have a chance at securing the fourth and final playoff spot in the Canada West.
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“We want to go to the playoffs,” said Huskies head coach Brian Towriss “We have a chance to control our end of it, and I’m pretty sure Calgary is going to do what they have to do.”
The Huskies are hoping that Calgary Dinos will take care of business this weekend. The No. 1 ranked Dinos are playing the Alberta Golden Bears on Saturday, and if the Bears pull off the upset, then the Huskies will be officially eliminated from playoff contention.
The Huskies have made the playoffs 14 years in a row.
Friday’s game will be broadcast live on Shaw TV starting at 7 p.m.
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