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The end of a great rivalry.

AAS Editorial 11/22/11
Goodbye to old UT vs. A&M game

Thanksgiving night, the University of Texas and Texas A&M football teams will play each other for the 118th time. As far as any of us currently know, there won't be a 119th game between the Longhorns and the Aggies.

Let's let that register for a moment.

UT and A&M first played each other in football in 1894, back when Grover Cleveland was president, the automobile was barely a novelty and the rotary dial had not yet revolutionized telephone technology. There is no one alive today who can't remember a time when these two Texas schools didn't play a football game against each other.

The Texas-Texas A&M game also has been a Thanksgiving weekend tradition for as long as anyone can remember — 64 games on Thanksgiving since 1918, counting this year's, and numerous others played the day after.

But it all ends Thursday night. Texas A&M is leaving the Big 12 Conference for the Southeastern Conference. It doesn't matter who's to blame for the Aggies' departure to the SEC because there's plenty of blame to go around.

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