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The Arizona State football team belongs to a fraternity whose membership decreases with each passing week, and some of the Sun Devils sound surprised that they are still included in the roll call.

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There are 11 unbeaten teams remaining in the Division I bowl subdivision. Southern California, Oklahoma and defending national champion Florida are not among them. ASU is, thanks to its 23-20 comeback victory at Washington State on Saturday.

“Sometimes, you don’t know how you got there,” first-year coach Dennis Erickson said. “All of a sudden, you look and you’re 6-0. It’s really the old cliche of taking it one game at a time. That’s the thing with this team.

“Am I surprised we’re 6-0? Whenever you’re 6-0, you’re somewhat surprised. You just keep battling, and you try to get No. 7 next week.”

Erickson’s team is ranked 14th by The Associated Press, 13th by USA Today (coaches) and 14th by Harris Interactive. The first Bowl Championship Series standings will be released on Sunday, and the Sun Devils figure to be included for the first time since 2004.

There are a lot of unlikely schools among the list of unbeatens: ASU, Boston College, California, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana State, Missouri, Ohio State and South Florida. That is as good indicator of how crazy this season has been.

The latest news of the weird came on Saturday, when 40-point underdog Stanford — a 41-3 loser to the Sun Devils the week before and playing without its starting quarterback — stunned USC, 24-23.

ASU still unbeaten but not untested