Once Texas A&M’s punt returner got loose, coach Brian Kelly reached above his head, grabbed his headset and spiked it into the ground.

Just a few minutes earlier, his LSU team controlled a game it couldn’t afford to lose.

But once Aggies receiver KC Concepcion broke through one tackle, tightroped past Kelly down the sideline and burst into the open field, finding the open space he needed to score a 79-yard punt return touchdown, LSU’s four-point halftime lead had suddenly, frustratingly turned into a 10-point third quarter deficit.

Previous LSU offenses could’ve perhaps clawed back into the game.

But not this one, which let 28 second-half points go answered in a 49-25 loss to Texas A&M that ended LSU’s hanging-by-a-thread hopes of sneaking into the College Football Playoff, this ti

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