Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney said last week that he was “pulling hard” for former Tiger coordinators Tony Elliott and Brent Venables to both make the 2025 College Football Playoff.
Elliott, now in his fourth season as Virginia’s head coach, was pulling for Swinney on Saturday, too.
Of course, Elliott spent 11 years at Clemson. He was promoted to assistant head coach and offensive coordinator in January 2021 after seven seasons as co-offensive coordinator (2014–20) and a decade as running backs coach (2011–20).
Before his championship-filled tenure with the Tigers, Elliott was a wide receiver at Clemson from 1999-2003 and was a team captain of the 2003 squad for which Swinney served as Elliott’s position coach in Swinney’s first year at Clemson.