Uteck Bowl

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Uteck Bowl
Sport Canadian football
League U Sports football
Awarded forWinning the U Sports Semifinal Championship
CountryCanada
History
First award2003
Editions21
First winner Saint Mary's Huskies
Most wins Laval Rouge et Or (8) [1]
Most recent Laurier (2024)

The Uteck Bowl is one of the two semifinal bowls of U Sports football, Canada's national competition for university teams that play Canadian football. It is held in the easternmost of the two semifinal venues. The Uteck Bowl champion moves on to face the Mitchell Bowl champion for the Vanier Cup. It was named for Larry Uteck, a former professional football player and university coach who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2002.

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History

The Atlantic Bowl traditionally saw the Atlantic University Sport champions face a champion from another conference at Huskies Stadium in Halifax. However, in the interests of competitive fairness, the Atlantic Bowl was replaced by the Mitchell Bowl, its venue, like the Churchill Bowl that had paralleled it for so long, rotating among two of the conference champions.

Larry Uteck was a longtime football coach at Saint Mary's University and, at the time, the university's athletic director. It was decided that the Churchill Bowl would be retired, the Mitchell Bowl would take the place of the Churchill Bowl, and a new championship would be named in Uteck's memory. Thus, the Uteck Bowl formally replaced the Atlantic Bowl.

The inaugural Uteck Bowl was played at Huskies Stadium, where two-time defending Vanier Cup champions and home team Saint Mary's Huskies defeated the Simon Fraser Clan.

The 2020 game was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2]

Uteck Bowl champions

DateChampionScoreRunner UpLocationUteck Bowl MVP
November 15, 2003 Saint Mary's 60–9 Simon Fraser Huskies Stadium, Halifax Les Mullings, Saint Mary's
November 20, 2004 Laval 30–11 Laurier PEPS Stadium, Quebec City Jeronimo Huerta-Flores, Laval
November 19, 2005Laurier31–10 Acadia Huskies Stadium, HalifaxRyan Pyear, Laurier
November 18, 2006Laval57–10AcadiaPEPS Stadium, Quebec CityOlivier Turcotte-Létourneau, Laval
November 17, 2007Saint Mary's24–2LavalHuskies Stadium, Halifax Tim St. Pierre, Saint Mary's
November 16, 2008Laval59–10 Calgary PEPS Stadium, Quebec City Benoit Groulx, Laval [3]
November 21, 2009Calgary38–14Saint Mary'sHuskies Stadium, Halifax Matt Walter, Calgary [4]
November 20, 2010Laval13–11 Western PEPS Stadium, Quebec City Christopher Milo, Laval
November 18, 2011 McMaster 45–21Acadia Moncton Stadium, Moncton Kyle Quinlan, McMaster [5]
November 17, 2012Laval42–7AcadiaPEPS Stadium, Quebec CityMaxime Boutin, Laval
November 16, 2013Laval48–21 Mount Allison MacAulay Field, Sackville Guillaume Rioux, Laval
November 22, 2014 Montreal 29–26 Manitoba CEPSUM Stadium, Montreal Gabriel Cousineau, Montreal [6]
November 21, 2015 UBC 36–9 St. Francis Xavier Oland Stadium, Antigonish Brandon Deschamps, UBC [7]
November 19, 2016Laval36–6Laurier Telus Stadium, Quebec City Félix Faubert-Lussier, Laval [8]
November 18, 2017Western81–3Acadia Raymond Field, Wolfville Chris Merchant, Western [9]
November 17, 2018Laval63–0St. Francis XavierTelus Stadium, Quebec City Hugo Richard, Laval [10]
November 16, 2019Montreal38–0AcadiaRaymond Field, WolfvilleReda Malki, Montreal
November 21, 2020Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic [2]
November 27, 2021 Saskatchewan 14–10MontrealCEPSUM Stadium, MontrealOffence: Adam Machart, Saskatchewan [11]
Defence: Riley Pickett, Saskatchewan [11]
November 19, 2022Saskatchewan36–19St. Francis XavierOland Stadium, AntigonishOffence: Mason Nyhus, Saskatchewan [12]
Defence: John Stoll, Saskatchewan [12]
November 18, 2023Montreal29–3WesternCEPSUM Stadium, MontrealOffence: Jonathan Sénécal, Montreal [13]
Defence: Nicolas Roy, Montreal [13]
November 16, 2024Laurier48–24 Bishop's Coulter Field, Lennoxville

Future participants

The teams and host sites of the Uteck Bowl and the Mitchell Bowl rotate on a six-year cycle, so that in each cycle each of the four conferences hosts and visits every other conference once. With the 2020 game cancelled, the cycle was delayed by one year with the 2020 teams playing in 2021. [14]

The participants and sites for future Uteck Bowl games are listed below: [15]

Date/YearVisiting conferenceHost conference
2024 OUA AUS
2025 AUS RSEQ
2026 RSEQ AUS
2027 Canada West RSEQ
2028 Canada West AUS
2029 OUA RSEQ

To date, the Uteck Bowl games hosted by Quebec have been played at the champion's home field, while the first four games hosted by Atlantic University Sport (AUS) were played at Huskies Stadium in Halifax. The 2011 game was held in Moncton at the newly built Moncton Stadium. All subsequent games were hosted by the Loney Bowl champion. [16] As of 2023, home teams have a record of 11–9.

Team win–loss records

TeamWLWin %
Laval Rouge et Or 81.889
Montreal Carabins 31.667
Saint Mary's Huskies 21.667
Saskatchewan Huskies 201.000
Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks 22.500
Western Mustangs 12.333
Calgary Dinos 11.500
McMaster Marauders 101.000
UBC Thunderbirds 101.000
Acadia Axemen 06.000
St. Francis Xavier X-Men 03.000
Manitoba Bisons 01.000
Mount Allison Mounties 01.000
Simon Fraser Clan 01.000
Bishop's Gaiters 01.000

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