Bowl games are tacked on artificially to the end of the regular season, which is one reason they are so difficult to predict.
There is a long gap between the end of the regular season and most bowl dates. You never know for sure which teams want to play the game, which teams are at the bowl sites to party and which teams don't want to be there at all.
It didn't look to me that many UCLA players were invested in the Foster Farms Bowl. The game was played on the day after Christmas in a largely empty Levi's Stadium against a sub-.