The 2011 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cowboys were led by seventh year head coach Mike Gundy and played their home games at Boone Pickens Stadium. They are a member of the Big 12 Conference.

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2011 Oklahoma State Cowboys football
National champion (Colley) Big 12 champion Fiesta Bowl champion
Fiesta Bowl, W 41–38OT vs. Stanford
Conference	Big 12 Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 3
AP	No. 3
Record	12–1 (8–1 Big 12)
Head coach	Mike Gundy (7th season)
Offensive coordinator	Todd Monken (1st season)
Offensive scheme	Air raid
Co-defensive coordinator	Bill Young (3rd season)
Co-defensive coordinator	Glenn Spencer (1st as co-DC, 3rd season)
Base defense	4–3
Home stadium	Boone Pickens Stadium
Seasons ← 2010 2012 →

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The 2011 season was arguably the best in the Cowboys' 112-year football history. They opened the season with 10 straight wins, in the process rising to #2 in the AP Poll—the school's highest-ever ranking in a major poll. After unexpectedly losing to Iowa State in Ames, they ultimately finished the regular season 11–1, including a 44–10 win over rival Oklahoma for their first win in the Bedlam Series since 2002. They also won their first Big 12 title and their first outright conference title since winning the 1948 Missouri Valley Conference title. They were invited to the Fiesta Bowl, their first Bowl Championship Series bid and the second major-bowl appearance in school history, where they defeated Stanford 41–38 in overtime. The Colley Matrix, an NCAA-designated major selector, chose OSU as national champions.^[1][2]

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Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 3	6:00 p.m.	Louisiana–Lafayette*	No. 9	Boone Pickens Stadium Stillwater, OK	FCS	W 61–34	55,382[4]
September 8	7:00 p.m.	Arizona*	No. 9	Boone Pickens Stadium Stillwater, OK	ESPN	W 37–14	54,654[5]
September 18A	12:15 a.m.A	at Tulsa*	No. 7	Chapman Stadium Tulsa, OK (rivalry)	FSN	W 59–33	24,563[6]
September 24	2:30 p.m.	at No. 8 Texas A&M	No. 7	Kyle Field College Station, TX	ABC/ESPN2	W 30–29	87,358[7]
October 8	2:30 p.m.	Kansas	No. 6	Boone Pickens Stadium Stillwater, OK		W 70–28	58,030[8]
October 15	2:30 p.m.	at No. 22 Texas	No. 6	Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium Austin, TX	ABC/ESPN	W 38–26	100,101[9]
October 22	11:00 a.m.	at Missouri	No. 6	Faurot Field Columbia, MO	FX	W 45–24	64,202[10]
October 29	2:30 p.m.	Baylor	No. 3	Boone Pickens Stadium Stillwater, OK	ABC/ESPN	W 59–24	58,274[11]
November 5	7:00 p.m.	No. 17 Kansas State	No. 3	Boone Pickens Stadium Stillwater, OK	ABC/ESPN2	W 52–45	58,895[12]
November 12	11:00 a.m.	at Texas Tech	No. 2	Jones AT&T Stadium Lubbock, TX	ABC	W 66–6	59,059[13]
November 18	7:00 p.m.	at Iowa State	No. 2	Jack Trice Stadium Ames, IA	ESPN	L 31–37 2OT	52,027[14]
December 3	7:00 p.m.	No. 10 Oklahoma	No. 3	Boone Pickens Stadium Stillwater, OK (Bedlam Game)	ABC	W 44–10	58,141[15]
January 2, 2012	7:30 p.m.	vs. No. 4 Stanford*	No. 3	University of Phoenix Stadium Glendale, AZ (Fiesta Bowl)	ESPN	W 41–38 OT	69,927[16]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Central time

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• ^A Originally scheduled to kick off at 9:00 p.m. on 9/17 but was delayed past midnight due to lightning.