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Pairings Announced for 2024 Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge
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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.