Halfway through the ACC's bowl slate (8 bowls), the league is 3-1, second-best among BCS conferences (percentage-wise) through Thursday night's games.

So far, the only ACC team to lose a bowl game is Georgia Tech, 14-7 losers to Air Force in the Independence Bowl. Maryland thrashed ECU 51-20 in Ralph Friedgen's Terp finale (Military Bowl), NC State whipped West Virginia 23-7 (Champs Sports Bowl), and UNC beat Tennessee 30-27 in a wild double-overtime game (Music City Bowl).

The ACC placed nine teams in bowl games, second only to the SEC with ten bowls. The Big Ten has eight bowl teams, followed by the Big 12 with seven, the Big East with five, and the PAC-10 with just four.

Remarkably, the SEC has played just one of its ten bowl games thus far, and has two games scheduled for today (Dec. 31st). The SEC will play seven bowl games on or after January 1st, a testament to the conference's drawing power and ability to sign tie-ins with high profile bowl games. There are 13 bowl games after the New Year dawns, and the SEC is involved in over half of them.

Of course, not all bowl games after New Year's Day are high profile: the lineup includes the GoDaddy.com Bowl, the BBVA Compass Bowl, and the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl. SEC teams are only occupying one spot in those three games (Kentucky vs. Pitt in the BBVA Compass Bowl).

Similar to the SEC, the Big Ten has played just two of eight games and has some high profile games left, including five games on New Year's Day and beyond. The Big Ten and SEC play each other in four games after the New Year, including the Sugar Bowl. Not surprisingly, the Big Ten and SEC are two of the three conferences to receive at-large BCS bids (Ohio State and Arkansas), and those two teams are playing each other in the Sugar Bowl. The Pac-10, which received only four bowl bids, included at-large Stanford to the Orange Bowl.

It's hard to project final conference records at this point, but the Big 12 will only go .500 at best, having gotten off to a horrible 1-4 start. If the ACC can win two of its remaining four bowl games, the league will have five bowl wins, which is guaranteed to be more than the Pac-10, Big East, and Big 12. That would leave the ACC, Big Ten, and SEC duking it out for most bowl wins in 2010.

ESPN has a listing of all bowl games, including results so far and matchups to come, at this link.