Sitting in front of reporters during his year-end media availability last November, Saskatchewan Roughriders general manager Jeremy O’Day said, “I truly feel like this is an ascending team.”

Turns out, he was right.

After hiring Corey Mace to serve as the CFL club’s next head coach, the Roughriders took a step forward last year after back-to-back seasons of missing the playoffs.

And while they lost in the West final, O’Day said last November, “it was a step within that grand plan of winning a championship.”

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This season, after clinching first place in the West division this season under Mace, the Roughriders beat the B.C. Lions in the West final before defeating the Montreal Alouettes for Saskatchewan’s first Grey Cup title sin

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