The 2011 Arkansas State Red Wolves football team represented

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in the

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. The Red Wolves were led by first-year head coach

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and played their home games at

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. They are members of the

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. They finished the season 10–3, 8–0 in Sun Belt play to become conference champions. They were invited to the

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where they were defeated by

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20–38. Freeze resigned at the end of the regular season to take the head coaching job at Ole Miss. David Gunn was the Red Wolves interim head coach for the GoDaddy.com Bowl.

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