By Matt Hladik College football has plenty of positives going for it, but the sport’s attendance issue is a thorn in the side of conference officials and university administrators. In-person attendance has been plummeting around the country for years now, and that downward slide continued in 2021. According to a new report from CBS, overall college football attendance last fall hit a 40-year low. Data compiled by the NCAA tells the ugly truth: an average per game attendance of 39,848 fans, the lowest since 1981. That figure is also a significant falloff from 2019’s average per game attendance …