No, never. Neither are teams like Iowa State and Kansas State.
But the point of the article is, that when big money comes calling, the big schools are going to vote with their wallets. And little teams will get left behind.
Current deals are looking to pay the BIG members upwards of 30+ million a year after the new round of negotiations with Fox and ESPN. Imagine when it's 50 million. Or 60 million. Or higher. The big boys from the power 5 are going to care very little for the bottom-of-the-pack teams, or those team's votes - which likely won't even matter.
When that kind of money is on the line, the 70-80% block of fairly stable mid-major to major Power 5 teams are going to jump at the money. No one else will have a choice, because these teams will control the TV markets. If the other teams even want to sniff the television market, they'll have to play along.
And because I was interested, I went to ESPN and looked back on our conference record. Even during the "catastrophic" years we had, we still would have been completely safe from relegation. The new system would just rotate the bottom dwellers of each conference in and out. With the very occasional, and very very entertaining prospect of a mid-major being bumped every once and awhile. I'd be more likely to watch those games, than the championship!
The system still allows cinderella teams to ascend, and even win big, but they would have to put together a multi-year run. One good year by a team will get them bumped up, but the next year that team may look very different. There is always the potential that their team would be depleted by graduation, injuries, and the draft. This would make putting together a multi-year run by a lower tier team that much more difficult. I'd imagine status quo would remain pretty much the same in each league.