for 299 yards with a 70.4% completion rate and the game-clinching third quarter touchdown pass to Kurleigh Gittens Jr. Despite being with the team since 2017, quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson entered the season as the undisputed starter for the first time in his career and was named an East Division All-Star after leading the league in passing yards. He was scheduled to play in his first Grey Cup game as a starter. The team had no major award winners, but head coach Ryan Dinwiddie was named the East Division coach of the year after leading the team to another first place finish in just his second year with the Argonauts. The team featured three CFL All-Stars with Kurleigh Gittens Jr. leading all national receivers with a team-leading 1,101 receiving yards and was the East Division Most Outstanding Canadian. Defensive end Ja'Gared Davis would play in his sixth consecutive Grey Cup game, but seeked just his second championship after winning with the 2018 Calgary Stampeders. Five-time All-Star running back Andrew Harris would face his former team after winning back-to-back Grey Cups with the Blue Bombers and winning the Grey Cup Most Valuable Player award in 2019. Head-to-head The Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Toronto Argonauts met just once during the regular season, in Toronto, at the end of week 4. Winnipeg scored two first quarter touchdowns, including an interception returned for a touchdown by Winston Rose, and held a 17–3 lead at halftime. Despite the deficit, the Argonauts committed to the run game in the second half and Andrew Harris finished with 22 carries for 111 yards in the first meeting against his former team. Trailing by seven points with 30 seconds left in the game, McLeod Bethel-Thompson threw a two-yard touchdown pass to Markeith Ambles, but placekicker Boris Bede missing the potential game-tying convert and the Blue Bombers held on to win 23–22. This championship was the seventh meeting between the two teams in the championship game, with the most recent being one of the most famous: the 1950 Mud Bowl. The 72-year gap between meetings is the longest-ever continuous gap between meetings of two traditional East and West opponents. The Argonauts won the first meeting in 1937 and repeated as champions in 1938. Toronto then won three consecutive championships over the Blue Bombers in 1945, 1946, and 1947. All six of these championship games were played at Varsity Stadium, in Toronto.