Hamilton Tiger-Cats

The Tiger-Cats won 11 of 18 in 2025 and covered the spread only 8 times, the widest gap between wins and covers of the nine CFL teams. Laying points in Hamilton was where it showed: seven home games as favorites, two covers.

Wins that did not cover

Watch the number at home. That is where Hamilton’s season and Hamilton’s spread record parted.

The Tiger-Cats went 11-7 and covered 8 of 18, 44.4%. Five teams covered more often; Montreal and Toronto covered at the same rate. They were favored 13 times, as often as BC and less only than Saskatchewan, and covered 5 of those 13. As underdogs, five games, they covered three.

Home and away

At home they were 5-4 and covered 3 of 9. Only Ottawa covered less often at home; Montreal and Toronto matched it. Laying points there, seven times, Hamilton won four and covered two. On the road the picture flips: 6-3 straight up, 5 covers in 9, and three of those covers came in the six road games where Hamilton was favored.

The two Elks games say it in miniature: wins of 28-24 and 29-27, laying 4.5 and 5.5, and no cover in either. The worst single result was a 40-3 loss at Winnipeg on 27 September as 1.5-point favorites.

The months

July was the high: 4-0, three covers. August gave it straight back, 1-2 with no covers in three. September and October together went 5-3, four covers in eight.

The opponents

The Ottawa Redblacks lost all three meetings, Hamilton covering two, the last 35-15 laying 13.5. The Toronto Argonauts fit the home-and-away pattern exactly: Hamilton won 51-38 and 47-29 in Toronto, covering both, and lost 35-33 at home to them while laying 4.5. Against the Calgary Stampeders and the Saskatchewan Roughriders it was 0-2 each, no covers in four.

The total

Hamilton scored 29.17 points a game, second only to BC, and allowed 27.56. The total still split 10 unders and 8 overs: nothing to lean on.

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