As the 2026 season approaches, CFL.ca is here to catch you up with the 5 Things To Know series. Each article will look at key storylines facing each team this season, while examining off-season movement and where your team might stand in 2026.

The BC Lions enter 2026 hungry, motivated, and with their eye on the prize.

And while most teams are feeling similar ahead of a brand-new campaign, the Lions know how close they came to playing for the 112th Grey Cup last year. And when a team falls short by the smallest of margins like BC did against Saskatchewan in the Western Final, there’s really nothing else to focus on the following season.

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“I think we’re going to hit the ground running and hopefully pick up right where we left off,” quarterback Nathan Rourke told bclions.com earlier this month.

“We’re a super hungry group and we want to continue to build on where we ended last year and obviously, we’ve got a bittersweet taste in our mouth. So, the motivation is there. We felt like we should have won it and we just didn’t make enough plays.”

With the majority of their core retained, BC will enter 2026 as a 113th Grey Cup frontrunner after finishing 11-7 last year. And it feels like anything other than........

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