So in the last 30 years only four non power conference teams have been invited to power conferences due to voluntary expansion - Florida State, Miami, South Carolina (former ACC member, so I'm not sure that they should be counted), Penn State, and Utah, with Utah being the only (now former) mid-major to receive such an honor. Sounds like a good list to be on and quite the accomplishment to crow about, if you ask me.

Going back at least 60 years the only "mid-majors" to ever be "called up" voluntarily are Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah, which makes for a very short list that I see plenty of reason to take pride in making.

Also, do you honestly consider the Big East a power conference since Miami, et al. left? The way most of America sees it, Miami left a power conference to join the ACC, but Cincinnati, Louisville, and USF did not join a power conference. I seem to remember lots of talk in 2004/05 about how Utah's Fiesta Bowl win was a joke because it was against the Big East champ and the Big East is a "power conference in name only." I really don't see the parallels between Utah's PAC invite and Louisville's Big East invite, but you gotta do what you gotta do to try to discredit Utah's accomplishments, I guess.