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 ASU Stadium. 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 Godaddy.com Bowl 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

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. David Gunn was the Red Wolves interim head coach for the GoDaddy.com Bowl.

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