Three more bowl games? Sure, why not? In fact, the NCAA should have approved 30 more of the things Thursday and turned the postseason into the football equivalent of the late, great Indiana high school basketball tournament. That way every team could get a bowl invitation except Duke, which can’t even win its own spring game.

The NCAA’s bowl certification committee granted life to postseason games in San Francisco (The Playful, Yet Haunting Pinot Noir Bowl), Honolulu (Sweet Jesus, Let’s-Hope-Hawaii-Qualifies-So-We-Can-Sell-Some-Tickets Bowl), and Charlotte (Suckers! We’re-Moving-To-New-Orleans-In-Two-Years Bowl). That brings the bowl game total to a cumbersome 28 -- one, maybe two of which actually mean something in this BCS world.

College football needs three more bowl games like Tiger needs a 9-wood. But here they are, ready to be added to the glut of December games that do little more than fill TV programming time and reduce the surplus supply of logo watches.

The football purists will get their shorts in a bunch and accuse the NCAA of watering down the bowl system like a casino-bar gin and tonic. Do the math: 28 bowls, 56 teams -- meaning nearly 50 percent of the 117 Division I-A programs will play somewhere at regular season’s end. There aren’t even 56 quality teams available, are there?

Yes, well, actually there were 65 D I-A programs with 6-5 records or better last season -- 66 if you count 6-6 Air Force. And so what if more teams get a piece of postseason cake? If we’re not going to junk the BCS and go to a pure playoff format -- and we’re not anytime soon -- then what does it really matter if, say, New Mexico squeezes itself into the bowl mix?

Former Indiana quarterback Antwaan Randle El, who never saw a winning season at IU, would have flossed Bob Knight’s molars just for the chance to play in the rinky-dinkiest of bowl games. And 9-3 Hawaii, which beat David Carr’s bowl-bound Fresno State team and later defeated then-12-0 Brigham Young (72-45, by the way), would have gone anywhere, anytime for a postseason invite last year. Instead, they went nowhere. "I think at the end of the season we were playing as good on offense as anyone, and that includes the big boys," says Hawaii coach June Jones.

The three new bowl games give six more programs another opportunity -- a chance to maybe cash a check and get a little TV time. What’s the harm, other than adding another layer of over-exposure to a game that already has a half-inch callus on its heel? "I think everybody wins," says Jones.

I doubt if I’ll build my December day around the infant Queen City Bowl in Charlotte. Then again, I didn’t exactly build my March day around Siena’s play-in game to join the NCAA hoops tournament field of 64. But that’s the beauty of the postseason: you don’t have to watch if you don’t want to. Keep the TV off. Pay no attention to the agate page in your sports section. "The San Francisco Bowl? What San Francisco Bowl?"

If nothing else, the NCAA says you’ve got to have at least a .500 record to receive a bowl bid next season. Siena reached the NCAA hoops tournament with a 16-18 record. And did you see the RPIs of some of the other tournament teams? They were higher than Jerry Garcia on 'shrooms.

College football is simply doing what the hoops community has done for decades. Expand. Dilute. Try to earn a buck. That’s why the NCAA Tournament is at 65 and counting. That’s why there’s an NIT. That’s why we have three more bowl games today.

For now, it’s no big deal. Start to worry if you ever see the NCAA approve these three words:

The Fargo Bowl.

Gene Wojciechowski is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine. E-mail him at gene.wojciechowski@espnmag.com.