Vandals paint Michigan State statue blue and yellow

Michigan State has not played a home game in the 2015 season yet, but the school’s Spartan statue is already under attack from its rivals.

WLNS-6 reports that the sculpture, which stands outside the team’s Spartan Stadium, had a blue “M” and yellow accents spraypainted all over it late Thursday or early Friday.

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Who would do this to the Spartan statue? What do you think @MSU_FB fans? http://t.co/tNGeef98gA pic.twitter.com/EgJZe9aeaJ
— WLNS Newsroom (@WLNS) September 11, 2015

Vandals hit the iconic Spartan statue outside #SpartanStadium this morning. http://t.co/tNGeef98gA pic.twitter.com/QfvxMgZp7q
— WLNS Newsroom (@WLNS) September 11, 2015

Last season, the block M on Michigan’s campus was defaced by rival fans who painted it green and used it to spell out MSU.

No. 5 Michigan State is scheduled to take on seventh-ranked Oregon on Saturday for its first game of the season.