Connections Sports Edition #775 hints and answers for Saturday, November 7, 2026
Connections Sports Edition #775 is a board of numbers, places and near misses: the yellow group is four ways a defense shows up in the box score, the green group is four teams that call Illinois home, and the purple group is the last four teams to lose the College Football Playoff title game. The trap is FIRE: it reads as a flame first, but here it is Chicago's soccer club. Work one group at a time: hint first, then the category name, then the four words waiting behind the tap.
Group 1 - Yellow
Hint: Four numbers a defense is graded on: pressuring the quarterback into a throw, picking a pass off, dropping the quarterback behind the line, and bringing the ball carrier down.
FOOTBALL DEFENSIVE STATISTICS
FOOTBALL DEFENSIVE STATISTICS
Group 2 - Green
Hint: Four teams based in Illinois: Chicago's North Side baseball club, Chicago's soccer club, and the two Big Ten schools, in Champaign and Evanston.
TEAMS IN ILLINOIS
TEAMS IN ILLINOIS
Group 3 - Blue
Hint: Four England internationals: Lauren Hemp of Manchester City, Lauren James of Chelsea, Beth Mead of Arsenal, and Ella Toone of Manchester United.
ENGLAND WOMEN'S SOCCER PLAYERS
ENGLAND WOMEN'S SOCCER PLAYERS
Group 4 - Purple
Hint: The four most recent losers of the College Football Playoff title game, newest first in spirit: Miami, Notre Dame, Washington and TCU each reached the final and came away second.