VANCOUVER –

Mike O’Shea and Ryan Dinwiddie are together again at the Gray Cup.

Winnipeg will face Toronto in the CFL championship game on Sunday at BC Place Stadium, the second meeting in three years between the two teams after the Argonauts beat the Blue Bombers 24-23 in the 2022 game.

Winnipeg is making its fifth straight Gray Cup appearance under O’Shea and is looking for a third victory.

Dinwiddie is finishing his fourth season with Toronto, having led the franchise to three consecutive first-place finishes in the East Division before finishing second in 2024.

Both head coaches have previous Gray Cup experience as players and assistant coaches.

After winning three Gray Cups as a player with Toronto (1996-97, 2004), O’Shea won a fourth championship ring with the Argos as special teams coordinator in 2012.

Dinwiddie made his first career CFL debut as quarterback with Winnipeg in the 2007 Gray Cup, but the Bombers lost 23-19 to Saskatchewan.

But Dinwiddie won a ring in 2018 as Calgary’s quarterback coach.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published November 12, 2024.