The 2024 Vanier Cup was the 59th edition of the Canadian university football championship, held on November 23, 2024, at Richardson Memorial Stadium in Kingston, Ontario.
The week before, the Québec conference Dunsmore Cup championship team, the Laval Rouge et Or visited the winners of the Canada West Hardy Trophy, the Regina Rams for the Mitchell Bowl and defeated them.
[3] As part of the rotating schedule, the Québec conference Dunsmore Cup championship team, the Laval Rouge et Or visited the winners of the Canada West Hardy Trophy, the Regina Rams for the Mitchell Bowl where they won 17–14.
[3] The championship game featured Wilfrid Laurier from Ontario University Athletics and Laval from the RSEQ Conference.
[6] The Rouge et Or and Golden Hawks have met twice previously, both times in the Uteck Bowl in Quebec City, in 2004 and 2016, where Laval won both matchups.