College football bowl games are a way to measure up how powerful a conference can really be. Generally teams are matched up with other teams of the same “talent” to provide great ratings and an equal opportunity for both teams to have success.
What happens sometimes, however, is that a conference is viewed as either stronger or weaker than they actually may be. So when the matchups are given, there can be a dominance factor for one of the two teams.
This season was a perfect example of just that. Some conferences that were viewed as “weak” won a majority of their bowl games and vise versa.