Football
- Title:
- Assistant Coach / Quarterbacks
- Email:
- fbrecruiting@missouri.edu
Garrett Riley, the former offensive coordinator at Clemson, TCU and SMU, joined the Mizzou staff in January of 2026 to coach the Tigers quarterbacks.
His first season in Columbia he inherits a quarterback room that features transfers Austin Simmons and Nick Evers along with Matt Zollers who returns after making three starts as a true freshman and incoming true freshman Gavin Sidwar.
Riley arrives in CoMo after serving as Clemson’s offensive coordinator and quarterback coach for the past three seasons, overseeing the development of QB Cade Klubnik. In 2025, Clemson ranked 22nd nationally throwing for 267.8 YPG. Klubnik threw 16 touchdowns and 2,943 this past season and 9,426 yards and 71 touchdowns during his three years with Riley.
Riley produced one of the nation’s most balanced offenses in 2024 when Clemson tied for the national lead with six games reaching both 200 rushing yards and 200 passing yards. Clemson, who won the ACC and made the CFP, produced a 3,000-yard passer, 1,000-yard rusher and four 500-yard pass catchers in a season for the fourth time in school history. Klubnik threw 36 touchdowns against only six interceptions and 3,639 yards. A season earlier, Klubnik completed 290-of-454 passes in his first full season as a starter in 2023.
Riley Joined Clemson from TCU, where he served as the team’s offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach in 2022, helping lead the Horned Frogs to a 13-2 record, a Fiesta Bowl title and a berth in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game in 2022. In his lone season in Fort Worth, he transformed the unit into the nation’s ninth-ranked scoring offense at 38.8 points per game. The explosive group led the FBS with 22 plays from scrimmage of 50 yards or more.
For his efforts, Riley was honored with the 2022 Broyles Award, presented annually to the nation’s top assistant coach. He guided TCU quarterback Max Duggan to the Davey O’Brien Award as the nation’s top quarterback, a runner-up finish in Heisman Trophy voting, All-America honors from several selectors and Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year.
Prior to his time at TCU, he spent two seasons in the same role at SMU from 2020-21. His offenses with the Mustangs finished in the top 15 in the nation in both scoring offense and total offense in both seasons and helped garner postseason accolades for quarterbacks Shane Buechele and Tanner Mordecai.
Riley was on Coach Drinkwitz staff at Appalachian State in 2019 as the running backs coach. The Mountaineers compiled a 13-1 record including a Sun Belt Conference title and a win in the New Orleans Bowl. He tutored App State’s Darrynton Evans to Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Year honors, after totaling 1,740 all-purpose yards, including 1,250 rushing yards and 20 touchdowns. Evans was third round selection of the Tennessee Titans in the 2020 NFL Draft.
He spent three seasons at Kansas from 2016-18 in various capacities. He joined the Jayhawks as an offensive analyst in 2016 before transitioning to an on-field role as the team’s quarterbacks coach in 2017 and its tight ends/fullbacks coach in 2018.
Riley made his FBS debut at East Carolina from 2013-15. After spending his first two seasons as a graduate assistant, he was promoted to outside receivers coach in 2015. That year, East Carolina’s Zay Jones caught 98 passes for 1,009 yards as part of the receiver’s FBS-record 399 career receptions.
He began coaching career in 2011, when he served as a passing game assistant and quarterbacks coach at Roosevelt High School in Lubbock, Texas. Riley moved to the collegiate ranks in 2012, helping rebuild an Augustana (Ill.) College program that was 2-8 prior to his arrival into a 5-5 squad that improved its rushing total by 500 yards during his season as the program’s running backs coach.
Riley was selected to the AFCA 35 Under 35 Coaches Leadership Institute in 2021. He played quarterback at Texas Tech from 2008-09 under Head Coach Mike Leach before transferring to Stephen F. Austin for the 2010 season. He saw action in 11 games in helping the Lumberjacks to a Southland Conference championship and a 9-3 record.
Riley, a native of Muleshoe, Texas, earned degree in general business from Texas Tech in 2012. At Muleshoe, he was the 2007 Associated Press All-State 2A Offensive Player of the Year, helping Muleshoe High School to its four straight playoff appearances.
Riley and wife Lindsay have two sons, Gibson and Greyson.
THE RILEY FILE
Hometown: Muleshoe, Texas
High School: Muleshoe High School
College: Texas Tech, 2012
Wife: Lindsay
Children: Gibson, Greyson
COACHING EXPERIENCE
|
Year |
School |
Position |
|
2026-Pres. |
Missouri |
Quarterbacks |
|
2023-25 |
Clemson |
Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks |
|
2022 |
TCU |
Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks |
|
2020-21 |
SMU |
Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks |
|
2019 |
Appalachian State |
Running Backs |
|
2018 |
Kansas |
Tight Ends/Fullbacks |
|
2017 |
Kansas |
Quarterbacks |
|
2016 |
Kansas |
Offensive Analyst |
|
2015 |
East Carolina |
Wide Receivers |
|
2013-14 |
East Carolina |
Graduate Assistant |
|
2012 |
Augustana (Ill.) |
Running Backs |
|
2011 |
Roosevelt (Texas) HS |
Quarterbacks |
|
2007 |
Tennessee-Martin |
Graduate Assistant |
