There WILL be 2 and as many as five 5-7 bowl teams!!

I'll watch as often as possible.

The 5-7 issue (or 6-6, for that matter) reminds me of when the Virginia High School League changed its football playoff format, and ended up with an 0-10 team qualifying because they didn't have anyone else to complete the bracket.

Side note: This is the first time in years I woke up mad about a sporting event from the day before. At this advanced age it's usually easy to move on, and be more concerned about being around for the next game as opposed to worrying about whether "my" team won. We'll get em next year. Or the year after.

but I can't think of another deserving 5-7 team

I am the other way to the people that will watch any bowl game. I watch hardly any, sometimes not even Michigan's game. Bowl games are stupid. Get rid of all of them and just have the playoff. Enough with the orange slices, Capri suns and everyone getting a trophy.
All teams can have practices in December to compensate.

There should be a bit more flexibility anyway, IMO. For teams that've won 5 or 6 or 7 games, better to look at overall quality rather than having a .500 record cutoff.

For instance, Akron is 7-6 and will go to a bowl of some sort, despite only beating crap teams. OTOH, you've got Nebraska with seven close loses against much better opponents, plus a win against a possible playoff school.

This is what participation trophies has led to. No longer do you have to be a winner to be rewarded.

Hell just this past week a women tried to pass the fitness tests to become a firefighter. She failed, claimed racism, and was given a job as a firefighter.

This country is going to hell in a hand basket.

OMG "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

A bowl game should be a reward for a good season.  A few mediocre teams might sneak in, but when you've got losing teams playing in bowls, the whole thing is cheapened.

If the NCAA had any integrity, they would start paring away the bowl field until they were down to about a couple dozen.

But they don't, of course, so here we are...

I will never complain about too much college football in December.

Everybody wants a piece of the pie no matter how small the slice. The questions is why teams would want to lose money on this. Those 5-7 teams are not going to get paid enough to cover the costs associated with sending their team to some no name Bowl that no "fan" will attend.

I don't like it that 6-6 or eevn 7-5 teams get to go to postseason bowls and there are entirely too many bowls.

Having said that, I do think that any bowl featuring Indiana this year will be fun to watch...I would love to see an Indiana/Texas Tech bowl, for example.

Watching college football is better than meth and it is less likely to kill you.  Bring on the crappy bowls. I'll watch 'em. You can rake leaves or whatnot.

But no quibbles about such things as the College Invitational Tournament or the National Invitational Tournament? Or the Battle 4 Atlantis? Or the 20-something other ridiculous college basketball tournaments that fewer people watch than watch bowl games? 

Sorry, I'll get off your lawn now.