Live at 9 with Natalie Pierre: With more bowl games on deck, how many is too many?

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Birmingham Bowl

Legion Field is shown before the Birmingham Bowl in Birmingham, Ala., Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015. (Mark Almond/ malmond@al.com)

Getting a bowl invite just ain't what it used to be.

With 42 bowl games on deck for the 2015 season, 84 teams will see a postseason this year. That is, 84 of the 127 programs in the Football Bowl Subdivision -- 66 percent.

By comparison, 30 year ago there were 18 bowl games -- just 36 teams that got to celebrate the accomplishment of extending their seasons.

Now, not getting a bowl invite says a lot more than actually receiving one.

Last season, 14 six-win teams went bowling. And lucky for us, the addition of three more bowl games in 2015-16 likely means even more .500 teams will see a postseason.

I have never been a fan of everyone getting a trophy, so I do think there are entirely too many bowl games. But my colleague Kevin Scarbinsky says there is no such thing.

What say you?

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