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Antoine Deslauriers looks over the offensive and defensive lines before a play during a Syracuse University Orange college football game. Text reads “For a rookie who looks like he was made in Chef Ramsay’s kitchen, he’s been extra reliable for the dome patrol. Alex McComb on Syracuse linebacker and Montreal native Antoine Deslauriers, who’s tied for the Orange lead in tackles this season.”
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This week on Border Ballers, my Canadian college football segment on Gridiron Nation:
🦁 Shakespeare Louis + Evan Aubrey, SLU
🍊 Antoine Deslauriers, Syracuse LB
🔴 Wesley Bailey, Louisville DL
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🏈 Queen's, SMU defences win titles
🏈 Antwan Raymond: Rutgers workhorse
🏈 Sask gets comeback revenge vs Regina
🏈 Sacks for Mesidor, Gatkuoth, Bailey
🏈 Montreal conquers Laval
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🏈 StFX, Regina FGs clinch title berths
🏈 Darius Bell keeps ECU pocket clean
🏈 Faulds, Snyder to meet again in Yates
🏈 Wesley Bailey shines again for Louisville
🏈 Laval, Montreal back (again)
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🏈 Guelph, UBC win upsets
🏈 Wesley Bailey, Rene Konga drop BC
🏈 SMU gets over StFX hump
🏈 Antwan Raymond gets to 11 TDs
🏈 Concordia over McGill in run-heavy W
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🏈 Laurier dismantles Western
🏈 Buffalo's Junior Poyser humbles UMass
🏈 Laval evens series with Montreal
🏈 Nick Cenacle strikes at Colorado State
🏈 StFX rebounds in Bishop's blowout
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🦃 Saint Mary's THANKFUL for Mount A
🏈 Bryce Butler, Rutgers' Canadians reunite
🏈 Ethan Dolby breaks an RB U record
🏈 Brendon Barrow breaks out at RIU
🏈 Ottawa keeps losing 1-score games
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Canadian WR Nate DeMontagnac caught this DIVING 20-yard score against Northern Iowa for his 1st TD of the season and North Dakota’s 1st road W on Saturday.
“It’s just about winning now,” the Mississauga native told reporters after the game.
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🏈 Carleton snaps Ottawa's Panda streak
🏈 Nuer Gatkuoth gets in the backfield
🏈 Saskatchewan, Regina hold on
🏈 Akheem Mesidor scary at Florida State
🏈 McGill almost gets Montreal again
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Melvin Siani steps back to prepare to block an incoming defender from his quarterback during a Wake Forest Uniform Demon Deacons football game against the NC State University Wolfpack.
Rene Konga celebrates with a teammate after a play, raising his right knee while thrusting his fists down during a University of Louisville Cardinals football game against the Pitt Panthers.
Catch me on TSN’s college football show, Gridiron Nation, today at 2:30pm ET talking about 2 Canadians dominating the trenches down south as part of my new show segment, Border Ballers:
⚫️ Melvin Siani, Wake Forest OL
🔴 Rene Konga, Louisville DL
📸 Minxing (Mike) Liu, Louisville Cardinals
Canadian Antwan Raymond is the only D1 RB to have scored at least 2 TDs in 4 consecutive games this season.
The Rutgers sophomore nearly had another on this play against Minnesota, but check out the contact balance from the Montreal product.
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🏈 Laurier, Western last undefeateds
🏈 Konga + Bailey's Louisville rolling
🏈 Can Carleton snap Ottawa's Panda streak?
🏈 Cruji + Stanley stout in Maine W
🏈 Alberta grabs 1st dub
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🏈 McGill upsets Montreal
🏈 Jesse Palmer remembers his French side
🏈 How do CFL changes impact U Sports?
🏈 Antoine Deslauriers' Syracuse mobs Clemson
🏈 Mesidor + Bain = Florida nightmare
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Canadian Dylan Djeté has been a valuable add to Alabama State’s receiving corps since transferring.
The WR from Levis, Que., has a TD in 3 straight Hornets games to start the college football season. He plays former CFL QB and current co-OC Henry Burris’ Florida A&M next.
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Weapon X had to wait his turn at Manitoba, but it looks like it paid off.
Veteran WR Nathan Udoh hauled in his 1st U Sports TD and exploded for 158 receiving yards on a record-tying 12 catches in the Bisons’ Saturday comeback over Saskatchewan.
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John Corscadden carries the football in his left arm while running up the field after catching an interception during a Queen’s University Golden Gaels football game against the University of Toronto Varsity Blues.
Queen’s DB John Corscadden had a day vs UofT this weekend, sniping 3 INTs from the U Sports passing yards leader.
The New Brunswick native is the 1st Gael to record a hat trick of picks (hat pick? pick trick?) in 1 game in over 15 years.
📸 Seyran Mammadov/Queen’s Gaels
Canadian DB Jett Elad blocked a punt — Kaj Sanders recovered for a TD — in Rutgers’ W over Mike Vick’s Norfolk State on Saturday.
Mississauga’s own also caught his 1st interception of the college football season in the blowout.
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🏈 Montreal tops Laval in RSEQ
🏈 Jett Elad, Antwan Raymond lift Rutgers
🏈 Manitoba comes back on Saskatchewan
🏈 Dylan Djete scores in 3rd straight game
🏈 Queen's is a Yates Cup contender
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Steve Bolo Mboumoua puts his right index finger pointed up in front of his mouth, as if he’s shushing someone, while posing for a photo in his crimson and white University of Alabama Crimson Tide football uniform.
Almost 10 years ago, Steve Bolo Mboumoua crossed the Atlantic from Cameroon to Quebec. He showed up to his first-ever practice in shin guards, having never seen this kind of football. (h/t Radio-Canada Sports)
On Saturday, he recorded his first 3 tackles for Alabama.
📸 Alabama Crimson Tide
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🏈 Antoine Deslauriers seals for Syracuse
🏈 York drops UofT in OT
🏈 Rutgers' 5 Canadians contribute to W
🏈 Hardy Cup still runs through Sask
🏈 Wesley Bailey, Rene Konga topple JMU
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Djibril Abdou Rahman runs while pointing to something out of frame as Dariel Djabome looks on with excitement after a playing during a Rutgers University Scarlet Knights football game against the University of Miami Ohio Redhawks.
Rutgers’ first 2 sacks of the college football season were courtesy of Canadians Dariel Djabome and Djibril Abdou Rahman.
The pair from the Montreal area got in the QB’s face within 2 plays of each other in Saturday’s W over Miami OH.
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The fun police ruled this an incomplete pass on Saturday, but let’s pretend it wasn’t:
Canadian Nuer Gatkuoth leverages his pterodactyl wingspan with a 1-arm stab & rip on the LT, strip-sacks the QB in 2 secs AND recovers the fumble for Wake Forest — if only it counted.
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Akheem Mesidor is airborne as he bends around a blocker to attack the quarterback during a University of Miami Hurricanes football game against the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Like his home country in WWI, Canadian Akheem Mesidor dominated the trenches for Miami in Week 1 of college football.
Against Notre Dame’s top-ranked OL, Ottawa’s own won 37.5% of his pass rush reps — the best among Power Four DLs with 20+ pass rush snaps in Week 1 (via PFF).
📸 Miami Hurricanes
Albert Reese IV poses for a photo in his football uniform while sitting in a folding chair, holding a football in his outstretched right hand and putting his left foot on his Mississippi State University Bulldogs helmet.
Canadian OLs Albert Reese IV and Logan Taylor didn’t allow a single QB pressure in their respective starts to the college football season (via PFF).
Reese’s Mississippi State and Taylor’s Boston College enter Week 2 at 1–0.
📸 Mississippi State Bulldogs
Canadian RB Antwan Raymond is making an early case for the Cornish Trophy.
The Montrealer kicked off his Rutgers CFB season ranking Top-5 in yards after contact (68), missed tackles forced (6) and 10+ yard carries (3) among Big Ten RBs (via PFF).
🎥 Rutgers Scarlet Knights
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🏈 Akheem Mesidor magical for Miami
🏈 Waterloo, Regina survive OT
🏈 No sophomore slump for Antwan Raymond
🏈 StFX earns 1st U Sports shutout
🏈 Reese IV, Siani allow 0 sacks in wins
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🏈 Western-Queen's ends in controversy
🏈 Cenacle's Hawai'i upsets Stanford
🏈 UofT, York win Week 1 in U Sports
🏈 Wither settles in at Laurier
🏈 More in Week 2!
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Three Western University Mustangs football players embrace each other after a play during a game against the Queen’s University Gaels.
With Western’s 4OT Saturday W over Queen’s, if the Gaels don’t beat the Mustangs in the OUA playoffs, Western will go 5,000 days without losing to its rival (Sept. 15, 2012 – May 25, 2026).
I started high school in Fall 2012. Where were you?
📸 Callista Laffrenier x @westernu.ca
Nick Cenacle runs with the ball during a University of Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors football game.
Canadian Nick Cenacle's U of Hawai’i kicks off its season Saturday. Montreal's own is a Top-2 returning Mountain West WR in 4+ stats from the '24 regular season (via PFF):
🟢 284 YAC (1st)
🟢 6 TD (T2nd)
🟢 13 missed tackles forced (2nd)
🟢 38 1st downs (T2nd)
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Since Canadian OL Matthew Bergeron was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in 2023, the Dirty Birds have been Top-12 in fewest sacks allowed and most rush yards per game in the Montreal product’s first 2 NFL seasons.
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