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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I'd like to see a link to this simply because the 1971 Thanksgiving Nebraska-Oklahoma "GOTC" makes pretty much the same claim except it is always "the most viewers ever" at 55 million.