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Football to play Missouri in Academy Sports + Outdoors Texas Bowl

The Longhorns will face Missouri on Dec. 27 at NRG Stadium in Houston.

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AUSTIN, Texas - The University of Texas Football program has accepted an invitation to represent the Big 12 Conference in the 2017 Academy Sports + Outdoors Texas Bowl on Dec. 27 at NRG Stadium in Houston. Kickoff against Missouri will be at 8:00 p.m. CT on ESPN.

Texas and Missouri have played 23 times, with the Longhorns owning a 17-6 all-time record. The two schools last met in 2011. The Longhorns and Tigers, once Big 12 Conference foes, have met just once previously in a bowl game - a 40-27 Longhorn victory in the 1946 Cotton Bowl.