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CFL: Blue Bombers are in position to take West Division lead [Video]

Don’t look now but Zach Collaros and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a win away from assuming top spot in the West Division standings.

After starting the season 0-4, Winnipeg (5-6) has won three straight to move within a point of first-place Saskatchewan (5-5-1). The Bombers visit the Roughriders, who’re 0-4-1 in their last five games, on Sunday night to kick off the Labour Day home-and-home series between the two teams.

Winnipeg needed Collaros’s 10-yard TD strike to Kenny Lawler in the dying seconds to edge the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 26-23 on Friday. The night before, the Toronto Argonauts rallied for a 20-19 home win over Saskatchewan before the Ottawa Redblacks defeated the B.C. Lions 34-27 on Saturday night to improve to 5-0-1 at TD Place.

Those results helped create the logjam that is the West Division as Winnipeg is tied with B.C. (5-6) – which has lost five straight – …

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