What can we learn from last week's openers?

That's a great question. It's a week in which a bunch of ranked teams didn't play, two highly ranked ones got knocked off, and in addition, coaches had all offseason to prepare for this game if they chose to.

So forgive Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan if they're not jumping to conclusions right away.

What does this mean for 2009? Listen to the Around the Nation podcast to find out Pat and Keith's take.

Go to the podcast page and click the play button to listen. You can load the podcast page in iTunes or can also get this and any of our future Around the Nation podcasts automatically by subscribing to this RSS feed: http://www.d3football.com/dailydose/?feed=podcast

Scroll down for more Saturday coverage. Plus check out our weekend photo galleries:
• No. 4 North Central at Ohio Northern
• No. 8 Willamette at Concordia-Moorhead
• No. 20 St. Thomas at Macalester
• No. 22 Occidental at Menlo
• Johns Hopkins at Delaware Valley
• Crown at Augsburg
• Luther at St. Olaf
• Maranatha Baptist at Martin Luther

Scroll down for more coverage from the weekend's games.

Each week during the regular season we look at some of the key statistical performances from the weekend in Division III football, highlighting one per region.

Leon Clark got his chance to be the featured back for St. Olaf and made the most of it, rushing for 197 yards and a touchdown on 25 carries to help lead the Oles to a 33-13 win against Luther. He also caught a 21-yard touchdown pass. Clark had just 10 carries in 2008, but two of them came on back-to-back plays for 80 yards and a touchdown against Carleton. "A credit to Leon, he knew that the team was bigger than he, so he ended up moving to wide receiver," coach Jerry Olszewski said after the game. "The plan all along was to move him back in the backfield. We even had some plays last year that featured him in the backfield, doing some Wildcat stuff."

Lebanon Valley scored on its first six possessions of the game to roll up a 41-14 lead at halftime. But Gettysburg ran 63 plays to Leb Val's 33 in the second half, including touchdown drives of 13, 12 and 15 plays to cut the lead to 47-42 before Lebanon Valley recovered an onside kick with 1:48 left to seal the game. The teams combined for 964 yards of total offense, while Gettysburg completed 31 of 56 passes in the losing cause.

Week 1: Scoreboard | Weekly ATN podcast | Photo galleries | Top 25

Greenville's defense held Washington U. to 167 total yards on 51 plays in a 17-7 victory, the first for the program over the Bears. Wash U had the ball for just 20:35 of game clock and recorded just five first downs on the night. Randy Mixson, a transfer from Concordia (Ill.), led the Panthers at linebacker with seven tackles, all solo, including two for loss. Four of the tackles were on third down and forced punts.

Kevin Gerhart finished with a game-high 15 tackles and had an interception which set up the game-winning touchdown in a 14-12 win against Muhlenberg. Gerhart picked off a pass from Justin Kreamer at the Muhlenberg 43-yard line and ran it back to the 28, one play before the final touchdown. "Myself, Corey Gilroy and Darnell Corbin have all been here a while and coach (Frank Sheptock) pulled us aside and said we are the play-makers on this team. We took it personally and went out there and tried to make something happen," Gerhart said.

Scroll down for the weekly ATN podcast and check out more weekend coverage.