The honest college football Week 1 takeaways from a wild opening weekend: nobody earned the No. 1 crown yet, and everybody is handing it out anyway. That is not a complaint. It is the sport working exactly as designed. One Saturday of evidence, ten months of opinions built up behind it, and a whole industry ready to declare a champion on Monday morning.

Robert Griffin III put his No. 1 stamp on a team after Saturday, ESPN refreshed its FPI top 25 on Monday after the Sunday slate, and the takeaway columns are all in the field. Everyone is sorting a 130-team sport off a single data point. I love it. I also do not believe a word of it yet.

College football Week 1 takeaways: what actually got settled

Very little, and that is the point. Clemson at LSU was the obvious headliner, and not only for the helmets involved. It was Lane Kiffin's first game as LSU's head coach after an offseason that felt less like a coaching search and more like a soap opera with a signing bonus. Kiffin has now had first days at Tennessee, USC, Florida Atlantic, Ole Miss and Baton Rouge, and I cannot think of another coach in the sport whose debuts carry their own weather system.

One night in Death Valley does not tell you whether the marriage works. It tells you what the tempo looks like, who can hold up on the perimeter, and whether the roster believes the guy. Those are real answers. They are just not standings.

Is Bryce Underwood still Michigan's starting quarterback?

Yes. The word Monday out of Ann Arbor was blunt: Kyle Whittingham said Bryce Underwood is Michigan's QB1 "right now," struggles in the opener included. Read that qualifier twice. Coaches do not attach "right now" to a quarterback they are prepared to defend in December. That is a tell.

Michigan won anyway, and the win came with a clock controversy loud enough that Paul Finebaum spent Monday morning on it, which is its own kind of confirmation that the ending was messy. A young quarterback with a rough first start, an ugly officiating conversation, and a victory in the ledger. Week 1 in one sentence.

Ole Miss after Lane Kiffin

The most interesting subplot to me is the team Kiffin left behind. Dan Orlovsky said Trinidad Chambliss can keep Ole Miss in every game even without Kiffin, and that is a genuinely bold thing to say about a program whose identity was its play caller for years. Chambliss has been the answer to a question Ole Miss did not plan to ask, and now the whole season sits on whether the answer travels.

checked the almanac: on september 1, 2007, appalachian state walked into ann arbor and beat no. 5 michigan 34-32. that is the entire argument against week 1 coronations, and it is still undefeated.

What comes next

Week 1 is not even finished. SMU visits Florida State tonight at 7:30 ET to close the book on the opening weekend, and that game carries more than it looks like on paper for a Seminoles program that has spent two years trying to convince people the floor is gone. Miami hosts Florida A&M on Thursday night. New Mexico gets Mercyhurst on Friday at 10 a.m. ET, which is the kind of kickoff time that only exists in this sport and which I will absolutely have on in the background.

What I am watching next is not the No. 1 slot. It is Michigan's next start from Underwood and whether "right now" turns into "our guy," and it is Ole Miss in a game where the margin gets thin and Chambliss has to win it himself. Those two answers will tell you more about October than any Monday ranking will.