From contender to pretender.

From excitement to embarrassment.

From fired up about a season that looked like it would be filled with thrills to chants of “Fire Kelly” — when they could be heard above the Texas A&M fans’ delirious chants, anyway.

So many thoughts in the wake of an LSU game that devolved from a brewing upset at halftime into an upset stomach of a 49-25 loss to the No. 3-ranked Aggies, but here’s a big one:

They announced Friday that they’re raising ticket prices next year … for this?

It may not matter for a lot of LSU fans who started filing out of Tiger Stadium midway through A&M’s 21-0 third-quarter rout. A lot of them won’t be back for the Tigers’ final two home games in what now shapes up as a pretty hollow and meaningless November.

Some of them may not be back unt

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