HAMILTON—This game felt all wrong from the start.

Only an announced crowd of 3,401 hardy CFL fans braved the cold and the wind to watch the Toronto Argonauts host the Calgary Stampeders in another “home” game away from the Rogers Centre.

The atmosphere at Tim Hortons Field was straight out high school, with clusters of fans huddled around each other in a 24,000-seat stadium where the stands behind the players’ benches was closed off.

This was hardly Saturday Night Lights.

More like Saturday Night Lights Out for Toronto (9-6), which lost 27-15 in a game that was worse than the score indicated after the Argos fell behind 17-0 at halftime.

This was the second relocated Argo home game with No. 3 coming up next Friday against Montreal, again at Tim Hortons Field.

Despite the loss, however, the Argos clinched a playoff berth later Saturday night when the B.C. Lions lost to Edmonton.

On Saturday, the weirdness continued for the Argos from the opening kickoff. With a brisk, cold wind in their faces, the Argos began playing as if their brains had frozen stiff.

“I mean we just started poorly,” head coach Scott Milanovich said. “It just took us too long to recover. You can’t play a half against the Grey Cup champions.”

Trevor Harris was a poor imitation of the quarterback the Argos have come to expect.

“I think that was probably the worst half of football I have played since probably high school,” Harris said. “I missed some throws I typically haven’t been missing. The team deserves better quarterback play.”

First, Harris threw an ugly interception on the first series into the wind that led to a touchdown. Then in the third quarter, Harris threw another pick with the wind at his back to kill a drive in Calgary’s territory.

This was not all his fault. Down 17-7, there was a strange play call by the Argos, who went for it on third and three on the Calgary 25 instead of settling for a field goal. Harris’s pass was deflected leading to the turnover.

Asked if regrets the decision, Milanovich said: “Right now, I don’t. I just felt that a field goal wasn’t going to win the game for us. I thought it was time to roll the dice there.”

Harris was picked off for a third time with a minute left in the game.

This was the eighth straight game Harris has thrown an interception and he has thrown a CFL worst 16 picks this season, although he also leads the league with 30 TD passes.

Harris was overthrowing receivers, underthrowing them and throwing behind them. When he did find the mark, the passes were dropped.

Harris was so out of sorts that by halftime that he was 7-of-17 for only 66 yards. This is a quarterback who went into the game leading the league with a 71.9 completion percentage.

Harris finished 26-of-44 for 260 yards, with a TD pass to Tori Gurley and three interceptions.

Bo Levi Mitchell finished 21-of-28 for 266 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions for Calgary (12-3).

“It wasn’t like a swirling wind,” Harris said, refusing to use any excuses. “It wasn’t anything that was hindering the throw.”

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The question surfaced after: Is it Ricky Ray time?

Milanovich dismissed the idea of Ray making his first start against the Montreal Alouettes, who recently acquired wily veteran Kevin Glenn.

Ray himself said in the locker room that he’s still not ready to return from off-season shoulder surgery that has kept him out all year.

“I don’t have enough to make all the throws right now,” the 35-year-old veteran said.