Attendance Issues Not Unique to BYU

I think BYU is in its own way sometimes on filling LES, but part of the factor is the nationwide downward trend for CFB attendance:



https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-footballs-growing-problem-empty-seats-1535634001



In part:

College football has an attendance problem. Average announced attendance in football’s top division dropped for the fourth consecutive year last year, declining 7.6% in four years. But schools’ internal records show that the sport’s attendance woes go far beyond that.



The average count of tickets scanned at home games—the number of fans who actually show up—is about 71% of the attendance you see in a box score, according to data from the 2017 season collected by The Wall Street Journal. In the Mid-American Conference, with less-prominent programs like Central Michigan and Toledo, teams’ scanned attendance numbers were 45% of announced attendance.

They didn't have data for BYU, but here's the numbers on announced attendace vs scanned ticket for the Utes and USU:



Utah State 120,650 91,463

Utah 321,390 252,532

56.9%

78.6%