Programs. There's a lot of great and well trained engineers that come from USU.
When I was at BYU the engineering college was close with UU but further behind USU in rankings.
I have hired almost all my engineers from the U; a function of being located near there and also hiring interns who transition to full time. But I interact with many engineers from USU and they are very sharp.
Fortunately almost none of them are what you'd recognize as 'fans'. Or even remotely interested in sports at all, actually! We have a little fun with it, but their hearts aren't into it 🙂