Venkata Chiluvuri will be perched in prime seats for Monday’s kick-off to football season. The graduate student of electrical and computer engineering won the DailyNews quiz and four gold-seat tickets to the Labour Day Classic, September 3 against the Ottawa Gee Gees at south campus stadium.

Chiluvuri’s name was drawn from all those respondents who correctly identified 50-33 as the score of Windsor’s quarterfinal win over Ottawa in the 2011 playoffs; 5-3 as the Lancers’ 2011 regular season record; and coach of the year, six OUA all-stars and three all-Canadians as among the honours team members won last year.

Monday’s game gets underway at 1 p.m. It will be televised live on TVCogeco, cable channel 11.

Lancer football opens season in national top 10

A panel drawn from the Football Reporters of Canada has ranked Windsor no. 10 in Canadian Interuniversity Sport to start the 2012 season.

For the first time, the McMaster Marauders open the season atop the national ranking. Other Ontario teams on the list include no. 5 Western and no. 6 Queen’s.

Read the full story, “Lancer Football ranked #10 in CIS pre-season rankings,” at goLancers.ca.