Pairings Announced for 2024 Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge
The Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge today announced the official pairings for its 17th annual charity golf tournament. A 12-team field of current and former college football coaches will compete for a share of the $300,000 charity purse April 30 at Reynolds Lake Oconee outside Atlanta.
Pairings were determined by balancing handicaps between teams. The nation’s premier collegiate coach golf event will be played in Two Man Scramble format with Stableford scoring in an 18-hole tournament.
Proceeds from the event benefit charitable foundations selected by the coaches. The first-place duo will split $65,000 between the two winning coaches’ charities, while the remainder of the purse will be divided based on the finish of the other teams.
Since its creation in 2007, the event has contributed a total of $9.3 million in scholarship and charity, helping make the Peach Bowl college football’s most charitable bowl organization.
Official pairings for this year’s Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge are set to include:
| COACH | CURRENT OR FORMER
FBS SCHOOL(S) |
CHARITY |
| Team 1 | ||
| Shane Beamer | South Carolina | The Beamer Family Foundation |
| Houston Nutt | Boise State, Arkansas, Ole Miss | Chickasaw Foundation |
| Team 2 | ||
| Manny Diaz | Duke | Durham Public Schools Foundation |
| Mike Cavan | SMU | Cornerstone Church |
| Team 3 | ||
| Dave Doeren | NC State | One Pack Empowered |
| Steve Spurrier | Duke, Florida, South Carolina | HBC Foundation |
| Team 4 | ||
| Eliah Drinkwitz | Mizzou | CarePortal |
| Randy Edsall | Maryland, UConn | Edsall Family Foundation |
| Team 5 | ||
| P.J. Fleck | Minnesota | Row the Boat @ Masonic Children’s Hospital |
| Dan Mullen | Mississippi State, Florida | Mullen Family 36 Foundation |
| Team 6 | ||
| Hugh Freeze | Auburn | For Others Collective |
| Tom O’Brien | Boston College, NC State | National Medal of Honor Leadership & Education Center |
| Team 7 | ||
| Brent Key | Georgia Tech | Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation |
| Rick Neuheisel | Colorado, Washington, UCLA | Lord Wedgwood Charity |
| Team 8 | ||
| Dan Lanning | Oregon | OHSU Foundation- Knight Cancer Institute |
| Jim Grobe | Ohio, Wake Forest, Baylor | Fisher DeBerry Foundation |
| Team 9 | ||
| Jeff Monken | Army | Lauren’s First and Goal |
| Paul Johnson | Navy, Georgia Tech | Paul and Susan Johnson Family Foundation |
| Team 10 | ||
| Pat Narduzzi | Pitt | UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh |
| Chan Gailey | Georgia Tech | Fellowship of Christian Athletes- Georgia Region |
| Team 11 | ||
| Mike Norvell | Florida State | Keep Climbing Family Foundation |
| Urban Meyer | Bowling Green, Utah, Florida, Ohio State | Urban And Shelley Meyer Family Foundation |
| Team 12 | ||
| Kirby Smart | Georgia | The Kirby Smart Family Foundation |
| Tommy Tuberville | Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas Tech, Cincinnati | Tommy Tuberville Foundation |
Overall, this year’s field includes an impressive roster of college football coaches that features three former Dodd Trophy winners, and a collective group who has won six FBS national championships, 42 conference championships and boast 2,318 collegiate career wins.
Final results and charity payouts will be revealed tomorrow at the conclusion of the tournament.
