2015 was a competitive year for the Canadian Football League, as five of the nine teams won 10 or more games. Edmonton and Calgary led the way with 14 wins each, while Ottawa had an impressive 12 wins after only winning 2 games one year ealier in their exansion first season of 2014. Edmonton would win the Western Division by a tie-breaker over Calgary to take the division championship, while Ottawa would win the Eastern Division by two games over Hamilton and Toronto. The other playoff team would be the BC Lions, with only a 7-11 record. In the Semi-Finals of the playoffs, it was the Hamilton Tiger-Cats over the Toronto Argonauts 25-22, while the Calgary Stampeders had no trouble with the BC Lions 35-9. In the Division Finals, it was the Ottawa Redblacks over the Tiger-Cats 35-28, while Edmonton Eskimos would outlast the Stampeders 45-31, setting up the match-up for the 103rd Grey Cup. The game was played on November 29, 2015, at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Eskimos won the contest 26–20 to claim their 14th Grey Cup championship in franchise history and first since 2005. The Redblacks got out to a quick start as quarterback Henry Burris threw a pair of touchdowns in the first six minutes and nine seconds of the game: Ottawa completed a six play opening drive for their first score, then recovered a fumble on the ensuing kickoff that led to a second, but unconverted, touchdown as the Redblacks took a 13–0 lead before Edmonton's offense had a chance to take the field. Edmonton answered with a field goal followed by a Mike Reilly touchdown pass to Adarius Bowman late in the first quarter. An Ottawa field goal and a single point for Edmonton following a missed field goal attempt moved Edmonton within five points, trailing 16–11 with a little under five minutes to play in the first half. A two-yard touchdown pass by Reilly to Akeem Shavers gave the Eskimos a 17–16 lead at half time. The second half became what the Edmonton Journal called a "brutal defensive struggle". The Redblacks regained the lead as they turned a 42-yard pass interference penalty to Edmonton into a field goal, while Edmonton scored one point off a punt, and then missed a field goal late in the quarter as Sean Whyte's attempt hit the uprights and out; Ottawa led the game through three quarters by a 19–18 score. They added a point in the fourth quarter when kicker Chris Milo, attempting to pin Edmonton's offense deep in their own zone, instead kicked a wind-aided 72-yard punt into the end zone. The score
then remained unchanged until the final minutes of the contest as Edmonton marched the ball 78 yards, aided significantly by consecutive pass interference penalties to Ottawa, the second called after a coaches' challenge that the referees initially failed to penalize.  Jordan Lynch then scored on a one-yard touchdown run that gave Edmonton a 26–20 lead with 3:22 left to play, and which held up as the final score of the game. Mike Reilly was named Most Valuable Player after completing 21 of 35 pass attempts for 269 yards with two touchdown passes. He was also Edmonton's leading rusher at 66 yards. Shamawd Chambers, who missed the majority of the 2015 season with a knee injury, received the Dick Suderman Trophy as Most Valuable Canadian.