Independence...The New Super Conference?

Independence isn’t as great as many make it out to be. Even Notre Dame is facing pressure to join a big conference due to the uncertainty of college football (i.e financial circumstances and talk of super conferences). Plus, most big name teams from the SEC and Big-12 are looking for opponents they know they can crush because winning their conference is tough enough. I realize there’s always exceptions to the rule (such as Texas agreeing to play BYU) but you aren’t gonna get big names on a regular basis.
 Another huge point to consider is the bowls: most of the non BCS bowls have tie-ins. Independence clearly limits your options given your not in a conference, thus you have have zero tie-ins with any bowl. The only way these teams can be invited is if that conference doesn’t have enough teams that qualify. That will always be at the bottom end of the bowl pool. The top bowls will always have teams that they are contractually obligated to invite. Again, there are exceptions (like Navy playing in the Armed Forces Bowl) but for the most part ,the current system would only hurt good independent teams.