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A&M earned, among other things, a TV ban, resulting in the Texas-Texas A&M game not getting broadcast and eventually moved to T+1, ruining the tradition of college football on Thanksgiving Day.

Never ceases to amaze mean how people parrot false talking points.

Three things got the A&M-Texas game moved off of Thanksgiving: (1) the SWC's practice of keeping the conference schedule more or less the same year after year; (2) building the SWC schedule around having OU-Texas on the 2nd Saturday in October; and, (3) the addition of the University of Houston to the SWC. Once the number of conference games went from 7 to 8 in 1976, there weren't enough Saturdays between OU-Texas and Thanksgiving for the A&M-Texas game to played on Thanksgiving in some years, as it was always the final game of the year for the teams and the final weekend on the calendar sometimes stretched into December. There was exactly one year where the game was moved to an earlier slot because of a TV ban (1994). The game was played on the on the first Saturday in 1977, 1978, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1990, and 1995. That's seven years out of 20 follow UH's joining the conference where the game was played in December largely because OU-Texas was what the conference built the calendar around.