The college football postseason will be very different this season, with the end of the BCS and the beginning of the four-team College Football Playoff. But there's more!

The CFP selection committee also will pick teams for the Fiesta, Orange and Cotton bowls. Those are the major bowls not hosting this season's CFP semifinal games. The selections will be based on ... get ready to be shocked ... merit. Well, there are some other considerations, but there won't be any more ridiculous decisions made purely on potential ticket sales. (The national semifinals, by the way, are to be played out at the Allstate Sugar Bowl and the Rose Bowl Game Presented By Northwestern Mutual on Jan. 1, 2015, with the winners to vie for the national championship on Jan. 12, 2015, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.)

There also is expected to be more flexibility in the bowl arrangements, with bowls working with conferences to put together the best matchups possible and avoid repeat visits. That seems to be another good thing, though we await its execution.

In any event, here are your Pac-12 bowl projections, made with all the certainty one can muster in advance of the season itself.

College Football Playoff: Oregon

Fiesta Bowl: UCLA

Valero Alamo Bowl: Stanford (vs. Big 12)

National University Holiday Bowl: USC (vs. Big Ten)

San Francisco Bowl: Washington (vs. Big Ten)

Hyundai Sun Bowl: Arizona State (vs. ACC)

Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl: Washington State (vs. Mountain West)

Cactus Bowl: Oregon State (vs. Big 12)

Heart of Dallas Bowl*: Arizona

* at large