2011 Central Arkansas Bears football team
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| Sports Network | No. 15 |
| FCS Coaches | No. 15 |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 2 Sam Houston State $^ | 7 | – | 0 | 14 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 14 Central Arkansas ^ | 6 | – | 1 | 9 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stephen F. Austin | 5 | – | 2 | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| McNeese State | 4 | – | 3 | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northwestern State | 3 | – | 4 | 5 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lamar | 2 | – | 5 | 4 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southeastern Louisiana | 1 | – | 6 | 3 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nicholls State | 0 | – | 7 | 1 | – | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2011 Central Arkansas Bears football team represented the University of Central Arkansas in the 2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bears were led by 12th year head coach Clint Conque and played their home games at Estes Stadium. They are a member of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 9–4, 6–1 in Southland play to finish in second place. They received an at-large bid into the FCS playoffs where they defeated Tennessee Tech in the first round before falling to Montana in the second round.
Estes Stadium had a new playing surface for 2011, a synthetic turf that is stripped purple and gray with black endzones. The field is the third non green field in Division I football behind Bronco Stadium at Boise State of the FBS (blue) and Roos Field at Eastern Washington (red).
Schedule
September 17:00 PMHenderson State*No. 18
W 38–14 12,755 September 106:00 PMat Louisiana Tech*No. 18
ESPN3L 42–48 OT20,652 September 176:00 PMat Sam Houston StateNo. 18
L 10–31 9,831 September 247:00 PMat Arkansas State*
KATVL 24–53 27,918 October 16:00 PMStephen F. Austin
- Estes Stadium
- Conway, Arkansas
W 38–28 11,127 October 82:00 PMat Nicholls State
W 37–31 5,432 October 153:00 PMNo. 22 McNeese State
- Estes Stadium
- Conway, Arkansas (Red Beans and Rice Bowl)
SLC TVW 21–18 9,528 October 223:00 PMat Lamar
SLC TVW 38–24 15,367
October 296:00 PMSoutheastern Louisiana
- Estes Stadium
- Conway, Arkansas
W 55–29 10,543 November 53:00 PMat Northwestern StateNo. 25
SLC TVW 45–20 9,156 November 124:00 PMTexas State*No. 19
- Estes Stadium
- Conway, Arkansas
W 23–22 7,724 November 262:00 PMat No. 21 Tennessee Tech*No. 15
- Tucker Stadium
- Cookeville, Tennessee (FCS Playoffs First Round)
ESPN3W 34–14 6,115 December 31:00 PMat No. 5 Montana*No. 15
- Washington–Grizzly Stadium
- Missoula, Montana (FCS Playoffs Second Round)
ESPN3L 14–41 22,005