All you need to know to watch the Texas Bowl on Wednesday.

It’s been a rough season for the Texas Longhorns, and it’s getting rougher by the day. Multiple big-name players are set to miss the Texas Bowl against the Missouri Tigers with injury, for the NFL draft and even suspensions. But they’ll try and secure a winning season on Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN (live stream via WatchESPN).

Missouri was a very weird team this season. It went 0-5 against bowl teams this year, but 7-0 against teams who didn’t make it to a bowl. It’s looked great at times but awful in others. The defense has had a lot of trouble getting off the field, and if Texas wants to win, the best place to start would be keeping them out there for as long as possible.

Texas will be without some of its best players in the game, but it still is favored by a small margin. Texas is simply the more talented team, even without big names like Connor Williams, DeShon Elliott, and Holton Hill, who will all be missing the game.

Drew Lock is the player to watch for Missouri. The quarterback completed 224 of 385 passes for 3,695 yards, 43 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions.

Below is all you need to know to watch the game on Wednesday.

Time, TV channel, and streaming info

• Time: 9 p.m. ET
• Location: NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas
• TV: ESPN
• Streaming: WatchESPN
• Odds: Missouri opened as very narrow 1-point favorites for the matchup

Texas vs. Missouri news:

• The Longhorns are already hurting on the injury front, but they will also be without three players who were suspended for violating team rules. Those players are Lil’Jordan Humphrey, Toneil Carter and Garrett Gray.
• Sam Ehlinger’s turnovers late in the season have the Longhorns just about ready to name Shane Buechele as the starting quarterback against Missouri on Wednesday.
• On the injury front, Brandon Jones had to exit Texas’s practice with an injury, and is listed as probable for the Texas Bowl on the injury report.
• The Texas offense has been a weird one, as noted by the folks at Rock M Nation, who took a deep dive on Texas’ offense in advance of the game.
• Defensively, Texas is depleted, but it is still dangerous, as noted by Missouri fans in their preview of that side of the ball.

Texas vs. Missouri prediction:

This should be a close one, with Missouri very narrowly favored. But we’re going with Texas to take this one — it simply has too much talent.

Be sure to check out all our bowl predictions here.