Because the conferences are toooooo big, the schedules are really unbalanced. So just looking at conference record is a lousy way of determining what the real pecking order is...

Take the BigTen.
I think the REAL pecking order was really:
Oregon
Ohio State
Penn State
Indiana

Or look at BigXII
ASU
BYU
ISU
Colorado

SEC
Texas
Georgia
Tenn
Ole miss
South Carolina
Alabama

But because if unbalanced schedules, those are not the order the committee ranked them.

Going in, the rankings should have been something like ....

1 Oregon (seed 1)
2 Ohio State (seed 5)
3 Texas (seed 6)
4 ND (seed 7)
5 Georgia (seed 2)
6 Penn State (seed 8)
7 ASU (seed 3)
8 Tennessee (seed 9)
9 BYU (seed 10)
10 SMU (seed 4)
11 Boise State (seed 11)
12 Indiana
13 South Carolina
14 Alabama
16 Army (seed 12)
17 Miami
18 Clemson

If that had been the rankings, it would have played out way more logically in the on field games.

Then Oregon would be playing Penn State or Tennessee... And probably win
Georgia is playing ND or BYU