Those teams may be in the conferences, but they never actually compete- at the end of the day, it may be for the best for the schools left out, for me college sports was about rooting for fellow students- people I knew from class, people who lived in the same freshman dorm, and later frat brothers- most huge programs basically have you rooting for mercenaries who go to joke classes (if at all), live in atheletes dorms and aren't really students - at that point, you're rooting for a minor league pro team