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Today, GA Southern beat App State in the Birmingham Bowl in front of 12,000 fans.
GSU finishes its season 7-6.  App State 5-8. 

GA Southern, the 6x FCS national champions.
Appalachian State, the 3x FCS national champions.
All 9 in our lifetimes.

These schools have chosen to work their way up, into the G5 level of FBS, for additional monies, surely, and possibly a 50-year long plan of a goal of something greater.

It's not for the fans.  It's not for the players.
These two teams could very easily be playing for another FCS national championship to a full house, vying to be the best team in the country in their division today, but no.  No packed house.  No one on the edge of their seat.  No potential NC rings or trophy.  Just another anonymous bowl by .500 teams.

I'm not going to fault the schools, but their actions go against the interest and excitement of the fans and are not in the best interest of the players on the field.

Kirk Herbstreit has been one of the most prominent faces of ESPN’s college football coverage since joining the network in 1995. Given his three-decade tenure with the Worldwide Leader, the longtime ESPN College GameDay analyst isn’t afraid to question the status-quo, and recently admitted the sheer number of bowl games ESPN produces might be oversaturating the sport.

“I’ll say this, I feel like … I said this at a (ESPN) seminar one time, … ‘Are we creating too many bowl games?’” Herbstreit said during Monday’s episode of his Nonstop podcast with fellow ESPN colleague Joey Galloway. “Like, bowl games are supposed to be special. It’s supposed to be a reward for a great year. Do we have to have all these 6-6 teams and create these bowls just because they rate well? I feel like we’re oversaturating the bowl season. And that didn’t go over real well when I brought that up at the ESPN seminar because ESPN has created (many of them).

Eh the bowl games have always been meaningless exbibitions, outside of a handful that might impact the MNC discussion.  Does it really matter if they add a few more?  What's so much more special about being 7-5 versus 6-6?

Seems like a silly thing to worry about, IMO.

For most of us on the B1G board, making a NYD bowl game was a big deal. Rose, Citrus, Outback. Gator Bowl too, off and on.

That was then.

Music City was always fun, but that's all about location.

yup, move the pinstripe bowl

NYC at Christmas is the one cold weather one that makes sense.  Get rid of Boston, Detroit and Boise first

The Pinstripe Bowl should be between prison teams. 

That's the SEC Championship Game