This year’s field includes an impressive roster of college football greats that features six former Dodd Trophy winners, and a collective group of coaches who have won nine FBS national championships, 64 conference championships and boast 2,925 career wins.
The 2026 field also features 24 coaches who have previously competed in the Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge, while Rhett Lashlee and Ted Roof are set to make their first-ever appearances in the event.
Proceeds from the competition benefit charitable foundations selected by the coaches. Coach Whittingham’s winnings will go to the Guadalupe Center, which supports immigrants, refugees and underserved children and families by providing the educational and community support they need to improve their lives.
To date, 61 head coaches have participated in the tournament during its 19-year history, raising a total of $3.5 million for 78 different charities and foundations. Since its creation in 2007, the event has contributed a total of $10 million in scholarship and charity, helping make Peach Bowl, Inc. college football’s most charitable bowl organization.
“We’ve now raised $10 million in charitable funds from this event and look forward to adding to that total thanks to this year’s impressive field of coaches,” Peach Bowl, Inc. CEO and President Gary Stokan said. “This annual tradition has grown to become the premier collegiate coach golf event and we’re thankful so many of college football’s biggest names have participated over the years in order to give back to various causes that have personal meaning to them.”
