Timeline of 13 years of pettiness since Texas and Texas A&M last played - ESPN

On Thanksgiving in 2011, we thought we saw the end of the Texas-Texas A&M football rivalry.

When Texas senior, and future NFL great, Justin Tucker nailed a 40-yard, winning field goal, it gave the Longhorns a 27-25 win over their hated rivals and closed out a series that had been played since 1894.

«It was special,» Tucker said at the time. «This is what we play for in college football.… And being able to put a smile on every Longhorns [fan's] face tonight was special to me.''

It was the end because conference realignment was splitting up the Aggies and Longhorns. Texas A&M was leaving the Big 12 for the SEC. It would take another titanic round of conference realignment for Texas to join the Aggies there.

And to get the rivalry back on the schedule.

Though, by Saturday, the Aggies and Longhorns won't have met on a football field in 4,755 days, the hate went nowhere.

The teams have met in other sports. The Horns also swiped Texas A&M's baseball coach, Jim Schlossnagle, in June. His hiring came a day after he said: „I took the job at Texas A&M to never take another job again.“ But since that Thursday 13 years ago, the football rivalry has largely been reduced to political maneuvers, social media spats and rote answers from new coaches.

Here's a look at the timeline of pettiness before the Longhorns and Aggies finally play again (Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC/ESPN+):

The SEC's addition of Texas A&M and Missouri was the conference's first movement outside its traditional footprint. The chance to add new TV markets and expand into new regions has been a factor in expansion ever since. But then-Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds didn't think the SEC was getting much out of the deal.

When it was said SEC expanded its