| 100% | OSU | 3 | Sch. that eliminates the letter "M" from campus before games against Michigan |
| 31% | UCLA | 4 | Sch. that plays home games in the Rose Bowl |
| 31% | USC | 3 | Sch. that competes against Notre Dame for the Jeweled Shillelagh |
| 31% | UCLA | 4 | Sch. that plays home football games at the Rose Bowl |
| 30% | USC | 3 | Sch. that plays home football games at the L.A. Coliseum |
| 30% | THETA | 5 | Letter that was derived from the Phoenician letter teth |
| 30% | PHI | 3 | Letter that may have derived from the Phoenician qoph |
| 30% | SEMI | 4 | Game that's right before the finals, for short |
| 30% | SICKNOTE | 8 | Short letter that excludes you from games |
| 30% | ETA | 3 | Letter that rhymes with the ones before and after it |
| 30% | CUE | 3 | Game stick that sounds like a letter of the alphabet |
| 30% | REMOTE | 6 | Game play that is done from afar, on the internet |
| 29% | THETA | 5 | Greek letter that rhymes with the one before it |
| 29% | PEA | 3 | Garden vegetable that sounds like a letter from the alphabet |
| 29% | TORTUROUS | 9 | ... that is spelled entirely from the last dozen letters of the alphabet |
| 28% | DETROIT | 7 | ___ Tigers, MLB team from Michigan that is known as the "Tigers" |
| 28% | LOAN | 4 | Money that's borrowed from the bank in the board game "Life" |
| 27% | LSU | 3 | Sch. that's home to the Golden Band from Tigerland |
| 27% | LEVITZ | 6 | Popular furniture brand from before the millennium that helped create the "furniture warehouse" concept |
| 27% | TBONE | 5 | Type of steak that takes its name from a letter of the alphabet: Hyph. |
| 27% | POP | 3 | Push ___, fruit-flavored candy from the 80s that needed to be pushed before consumption |
| 27% | AMES | 4 | Popular departmental store from before the millennium that was known for its great discounts |
| 27% | ETA | 3 | Letter that rhymes with the letters before and after it |
| 27% | MIKE | 4 | Code word for the letter M |
| 27% | ANGORA | 6 | Kind of wool that differs by one letter from the name of an African country |
| 26% | OPT | 3 | Word that can come before in or out and comes from the Latin for "to select" |
| 26% | MERVYNS | 7 | Popular departmental store from before the millennium that was a staple shopping visit for every household |
| 26% | WYE | 3 | The letter before zee, phonetically |
| 26% | SRY | 3 | Text abbr. that can be achieved by taking every other letter from the five-letter unabbreviated word |
| 26% | MEXICO | 6 | Most populated country starting with the letter M |