Forty Bowl Games is Too Many

Later today, the FBS Bowl season kicks off.  Yet again, there will be more bowl games than there were played last year, with the AutoNation Cure Bowl being added in.  This year, there are forty different bowl games.  Forty! Eighty FBS teams, when there are only about 120 or 130 FBS teams!  That is ridiculous.  The usual cut-off for a berth into a bowl game was six wins.  Now, since there are so many bowl games, they had to go to 5-7 teams.  This year, San Jose State, Minnesota, and Nebraska are the 5-7 teams.  These teams were chosen based off of APR, and these three times were lucky enough to continue their seasons.
There are really 42 bowl games, but the Air Force Reserve Bowl between Alcorn State and North Carolina A&T is a FCS bowl between the historically all-black schools from the SWAC and MEAC respectively.  This is the first playing of this bowl game.
Including that game there are six bowl games kicking off.  The Air Force Reserve Celebration Bowl at 11, the Gildan New Mexico Bowl kicking off at one between Arizona and New Mexico.   The Royal Purple Las Vegas bowl between Utah and BYU at 2:30.  The Raycom Camellia Bowl between Ohio and Appalachian State at 4:30.   The AutoNation Cure Bowl pitting San Jose State and Georgia State at six, at finally, the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl between Arkansas State and Louisiana Tech at eight.  All times are central standard time.
Let's take about the AutoNation Cure Bowl.  5-7 Mountain West team against a 6-6 Sun Belt team.  A bowl that doesn't really need to be played.  GSU won two games in a three year stretch before this year, but somehow started 2-6 and came from 17 down in their last game to finish 6-6.  SJSU is a 5-7 MWC team.  Enough said.  It's for a good cause, raising some money for Breast Cancer, but they could have a bigger game than this, maybe rename a bigger bowl.
Home games for New Mexico and Louisiana?  Don't like it.  New Mexico is actually playing in their home stadium.  How do they experience the fun of traveling for bowl games if it's in your home stadium? The experience is a really big part of it.
The best game is the Holy War between BYU and Utah.  A ranked team in Utah and a borderline top 25 team in BYU that is losing their head coach Bronco Medenhall. Although I complain, I always seem to enjoy the smaller bowls better, because we never know what to expect, teams I've never seen play before.  Let's hope it's still a good bowl season, even with too many games.
My bowl pick-em has been hard this year, because of all of these teams I have no idea about.  I won my group last year, but I don't really know some this year.  My picks today are NCA&T, Arizona, Utah, Appalachian State, GSU, and LT.