BATON ROUGE - LSU head football coach Brian Kelly has been fired and the school announced that associate head coach Frank Wilson will be leading the team in the interim.

Rumors had been swirling all day that the LSU Board of Supervisors and Governor Jeff Landry were working on a plan of separation for Kelly. Negotiations were underway to find a financial figure that worked for both the school and the coach, whose buyout is more than $53 million.

After Saturday night's 49-25 loss to Texas A&M, Landry tweeted at the school's athletic department to reconsider raising season ticket prices due the game.

After the loss to the Aggies, LSU fell to a 5-3 overall record and 2-3 in SEC play for the season. Kelly was 34-14 in his four years at LSU.

The Tigers went to the SEC championship in Kell

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