re: Name an often forgotten about thing that happened in big football game.

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1969 #1 Texas vs #2 Arkansas "Game of the Century" Nixon established as the National Championship game. That game had a television 74 share, which remains as of the highest TV rating in American football history, college or professional.

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This game has been nicknamed "Dixie's Last Stand", since it was the last major American sporting event played between two all-white teams. However, major college football was not completely integrated until 1972 when the final holdouts, Brigham Young, LSU and Ole Miss, fielded their first black varsity members.