CALGARY – The second instalment of the Dinos' six-week palindromian schedule to end the season takes them to Mosaic Stadium for a Saturday afternoon contest against the Regina Rams, marking the midway point of the 2015 season.

Kickoff is set for 4 p.m. MT Saturday, live on Shaw TV and CanadaWest.tv (pay-per-view).

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The Dinos play their next four contests against teams from Saskatchewan, with home-and-home series against the Rams and Huskies sandwiched between two tilts against the Alberta Golden Bears. The sequence couldn't have started better than it did in last week's 80-18 win over the Bears, where the Dinos managed 975 yards of total offence in a whitewash of their provincial rivals.

After consolidating its hold on the national No. 1 ranking this week, Calgary now heads to the Saskatchewan capital to face a Rams team they saw in non-conference play (a 25-9 win in Medicine Hat, Alta. in August) and still looking for its first win under new head coach Mike Gibson. The Rams opened with a 29-22 loss at home to Alberta before falling in consecutive road games at UBC and Saskatchewan.

The two teams will meet again Oct. 24 at McMahon Stadium in Calgary.

HEADLINES
•    First official meeting for the two teams since the Canada West semi-final last season – a 56-0 shutout by the hometown Dinos
•    Calgary is 15-6 all-time against Regina, with wins in 10 of their last 11 conference games. The lone blemish was a 12-9 Rams in late in the 2012 season
•    The Dinos held on to the No. 1 ranking this week with 26 of 30 first place votes, marking the first time since September 1993 the Dinos have topped the CIS poll back-to-back weeks
•    Calgary defeated Regina 25-9 in non-conference action Aug. 26 in Medicine Hat, Alta.
•    Through three weeks in Canada West, the Dinos are the only team in the conference with a positive point differential at +103. Regina's -29 is significantly better than Alberta at -43 and just behind UBC at -23 – but the Rams are 0-3 while both the Bears and T-Birds are 2-1.
•    The Dinos-Rams tilt will wrap up Week 4 of the Canada West season, with Manitoba at Alberta and Saskatchewan at UBC both set for Friday night.

No. 1 CALGARY DINOS (3-0)
Last week: defeated Alberta 80-18
Next week: home to Saskatchewan

•    No. 1 for the second week in a row, the Dinos defended their ranking with authority last week in an 80-18 win over Alberta – setting a conference record with 80 points in a game and putting up a mind-boggling 975 yards of total offence
•    Two Dinos – quarterback Andrew Buckley and kicker Johnny Mark – earned the Canada West and CIS weekly player-of-the-week honours on offence and special teams, respectively, after their impressive performances against Alberta last week
•    Calgary players feature atop the national leaderboard in several categories, including receiver Rashaun Simonise's 146.3 receiving yards per game. Mercer Timmis leads CIS with 175.3 rushing yards per game and seven TDs, while Johnny Mark is the most accurate kicker with more than two field goal attempts, splitting the uprights 10 times in his 11 opportunities.
•    While the Dinos' 710 yards-per-game average easily leads the conference, they're 50 yards behind Western's total of 760 per game for tops in the nation
•    Calgary returns home next week for the front end of a rare home-and-home match-up, facing the Saskatchewan Huskies Saturday, Oct. 3 at McMahon Stadium. Following the Thanksgiving bye, the Dinos will face the Huskies in Saskatoon.

REGINA RAMS (0-3)
Last week: lost to Saskatchewan 33-18
Next week: at Manitoba

•    Though the Rams are 0-3, they've been within a touchdown in two of their three games and just missed a late TD to draw even with UBC
•    Rams QB Noah Picton - and backup Tyler Vieira, who we saw for much of the UBC game - have done a fine job at spreading the ball around. The Rams have five players with at least 10 catches on the season, and all of them have between 171 (Riley Wilson) and 249 (Mitchell Picton) receiving yards. Andrew Bennett (15 catches for 211 yards), Mitch Thompson (13 for 195), and Richard Sindani (12 for 207) have also been heavily targeted by Rams pivots this year.
•    Rams tailback Atlee Simon is the No. 2 rusher in Canada West with 428 yards, trailing only the Dinos' Timmis
•    The Rams will open a home-and-home series against the Manitoba Bisons next week at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg before heading into the bye week over Thanksgiving.

DINOS RECORDS WATCH
•    K Johnny Mark enters the game with 442 career points, the all-time scoring leader in CIS football history
•    With 75 career field goals, Mark is the new Dinos and Canada West record holder in the category, beating Aaron Ifield's 71 (2006-10). He is nine away from the CIS record in the category of 84, set last season by Tyler Crapigna (McMaster, 2010-14).
•    RB Mercer Timmis has 41 all-purpose career TDs, passing Matt Walter's (2007-11) previous record of 35.
•    Timmis also owns the school record for rushing TDs with 39 and enters the game with 2,844 rushing yards, 4th on the Dinos' all-time list.

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