Were you able to hear it -- the uniform and hypnotic chant rising up from the stands of the Rose Bowl and the Alamo Dome and Sam Boyd Stadium?

“P-A-C, P-A-C,” they chanted in unison, reveling in their league’s postseason successes.

No? You didn’t hear it? But isn’t that what conference fans are supposed to do when they win in the postseason and send a team to the national championship game? With a 6-2 bowl record (and counting), surely the Pac-12 “won the bowl season” among the Power 5 conferences.

For years, the southern fried faction of college football made it their rallying cry as they gobbled up BCS championships with little-to-no resistance from the rest of the country. “S-E-C, S-E-C” was to BCS as speed was to Oregon.

But that time is over. Thus begins an era of finesse offenses with undersized lines and flimsy defenses (insert snarky chuckle).

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Yes, the Pac-12 has pretty much debunked every myth out there in 2014. With seven defensive All-Americans (including two unanimous and two consensus), the league showed it’s slightly more than just gimmicky offenses. And you need only see how Oregon tore apart Florida State in the Rose Bowl to settle any questions about the league’s physicality.

The P-A-C fanbase has never been one for chest thumping. Which is why you didn’t hear Oregon fans or UCLA fans or Stanford fans or ASU fans or Utah fans or USC fans chanting the conference call sign after their bowl wins.

But if there was ever a time to bask in a little conference pride, now might be the time to start.

Aside from the fact that the league has one of two teams in the national championship game, it’s impossible to disregard its performance in 2014 against the rest of the Power 5 conferences. An Oregon victory would simply be the gooey green gravy on an otherwise dominant year for the Pac-12.

Consider the records of the Power 5 against each other (including bowl games):

Pac-12: 13-4

SEC: 11-11

ACC: 12-13

Big Ten: 11-15

Big 12: 6-11

*Notre Dame: 6-5

No other league even came close to producing the type of success the Pac-12 did against the rest of the power conferences. Pac-12 schools averaged 37 points per game against other Power 5 teams. No other conference even averaged 30.

And while there are a pair of black eyes on the 6-2 bowl record -- namely Arizona and Washington -- it can’t be ignored that the Pac-12 went 5-1 against Power 5 conference teams in the postseason. And the chance to go to 6-1 is still out there.

The Pac-12 South, the division most comparable to the SEC West, was 4-1 in bowl play with wins over the Big 12, the ACC and the Big Ten. They split against the Mountain West … but come on … no one beats Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl, right?

The Pac-12’s six bowl wins matches a trend that started last season when the league went 6-3. Of course, that 6-3 was slightly downgraded by Stanford’s loss to Michigan State in the Rose Bowl. Under the old system, BCS wins and losses were the measuring stick for conference superiority. And no league won more BCS games than the SEC (17).

The league went 5-0 in bowl games in 2008, followed by four years of poor postseason showings. From 2009-2011, the league was just 10-16 in bowls. It’s 12-5 the last two years. So things are definitely trending up.

The conference might have spent 2014 feasting on itself in league play, but the record clearly shows a piranha-like mentality when playing the rest of the field.

The new system is far from perfect. An expanded field that included TCU and yes -- even a Boise State -- may have elevated the drama even more. But the end result is what we had all hoped for … letting things be determined on the field.

And when you look at what the Pac-12 has done on the field, it’s tough to dispute that, for now, the Pac-12 is the No. 1 conference in college football. You just won’t hear the fans chanting about it.