Vandals paint Michigan State statue blue and yellow

Michigan State has not begun its 2015 season yet, but the school’s Spartan statue is already under attack from its rivals.

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.