Five things we learned after Week 1 of college football season

LSU just put Clemson in a bad spot

Clemson losing to LSU wasn't the surprising part. The way it happened was. LSU won 51-10, handing Dabo Swinney the worst loss of his Clemson career.

That's a long time to go without taking a beating like that. Swinney has been at Clemson for 18 seasons, and this was the kind of loss that gets people asking much bigger questions than whether a team simply had a bad night.

Clemson has plenty of time to fix things. But getting embarrassed on national television by 41 points is not something that disappears because the calendar says Week 1.

Oregon found a way to get out of Boise

Oregon didn't cruise. The Ducks beat Boise State 34-27 in a game that stayed competitive far longer than Oregon probably wanted. Dante Moore threw for 378 yards and three touchdowns, but Boise State kept pushing until the end.

That's a useful win for Oregon. Not because it was pretty, because it wasn't. Teams that want to play deep into November are going to have games where everything doesn't click. Oregon got through one of those on Saturday.

Michigan got away with one

Michigan won. That's about where the good news ends.

The Wolverines beat Western Michigan 13-12 on a Hail Mary from Bryce Underwood to JJ Buchanan on the final play. Michigan had three turnovers and needed the officials to put one second back on the clock before the winning play could happen.

Nobody in Ann Arbor is going to complain about the result. They probably should be concerned about how they got there.

The new quarterbacks didn't need much time

One of the biggest stories from the opening weekend was how quickly some of the new faces looked comfortable.

Sayin had his big afternoon for Ohio State. Manning looked the part for Texas. Miami quarterback Darian Mensah threw for 401 yards and five touchdowns in a 45-6 win over Stanford.

That matters because the quarterback conversation was supposed to be about who would replace the stars who left college football. After one weekend, there are already some new names worth paying attention to. And that's probably the biggest lesson from Week 1.

We don't know exactly what this season is going to become yet. But there are already enough results to know that waiting around for the season to get interesting isn't going to be necessary.