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Ole Miss 31, LSU 13. I thought LSU saved its season with last week's comeback over Troy, like, okay, we made it through that, it wasn't pretty, but nothing's really changed -- 10 wins, a New Year's Day Bowl, all those realistic preseason goals were still very much on the table. Teams good enough to come back from 31-3 down in the third quarter are good enough to collect themselves to finish the season more or less according to preseason expectations.

But that's math, when I should have been paying attention to karma: If you view the once-impressive win over Auburn in light of those Tigers' subsequent collapse, LSU hasn't been recognizable as as a top-20 outfit in a single SEC game all year. What, a 24-17 win over South Carolina? You can write off the blowout losses to Florida and Georgia and the nailbiter against Alabama as tough breaks against three of the elite teams in the country; and the turnovers, man, my god, the turnovers! You can write off Troy because it was a win, wasn't it? And a gutsy one at that, that the Tigers thoroughly dominated when necessary.

But as obviously improved and feisty as Ole Miss is, how do you write off a one-touchdown offensive effort to the Rebels, at home? Or allowing them to march 77, 69, 89 and 72 yards for touchdowns before the eight-minute mark of the third quarter? Or falling to fourth place in the SEC West, with the next-to-last-ranked scoring defense in the conference? Jarrett Lee was atrocious again -- 4 of 12 for 49 yards, one sack and an interception -- and a true freshman wound up taking most of the snaps, with predictable results. But the supposedly rugged Tiger running game was buried (39 yards on 1.3 per carry, the worst effort of Les Miles' tenure on both counts) and the secondary was slain, again -- Jevan Snead (275 yards, 2 TDs) is the sixth SEC quarterback in seven games (everyone but Mississippi State) to throw for over 210 yards on a defense that had finished in the top 10 nationally in pass efficiency D six years in a row from 2002-07.

Gary Danielson said late in the game this would go down as the year LSU lost Ryan Perrilloux and was buried under the avalanche of inexperienced, inconsistent, injury-prone and frequently unlucky quarterback play. But no part of this team -- literally, not a single facet -- has been reminiscent of the program that established itself as a national power over the last five years. By the usual Tiger standards, it's just a lost season all the way around.