Oh I get it.
Personally I don't see a need to attempt to exert pressure to try and force them to join a conference, because I'm fine with college football being weird and not exactly like the NFL. In fact I prefer it.
I like conferences with different numbers of teams, with different methods of determining their champions, and random independents floating around the scene. Trying to wedge all of this into an NFL Lite model, makes the sport far less interesting to me.