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Game action in the 93rd Grey Cup

The 93rd Grey Cup game was held on November 27, 2005 at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia to decide the champion of the 2005 Canadian Football League season. The West Division's Edmonton Eskimos battled the East Division's Montreal Alouettes in a thrilling match, with Edmonton coming out on top by a score of 38 to 35 in overtime to earn their thirteenth Grey Cup championship. Edmonton's Ricky Ray and Mike Maurer were named Grey Cup Most Valuable Player and Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian respectively, while Éric Lapointe scored two touchdowns for Montreal.

It was the eleventh Grey Cup played between the Eskimos and Alouettes, the fourteenth hosted in Vancouver, and the first time in 44 years that a Grey Cup went into overtime. It was the first Grey Cup to be available in high-definition television.