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University of Michigan and Michigan State University supporters stood guard Friday over prized campus landmarks on the eve of the state’s biggest rivalry football game. The Spartans face the Wolverines in Ann Arbor today. Both teams are undefeated. Michigan students traditionally have painted the Sparty statue, left, in colors other than his natural green. “They’re capable of anything,” Michigan State grad Carol Martin said of her maize-and- blue counterparts. Meanwhile, Michigan State students have countered by scrawling graffiti across the inlaid block “M” in the center of the Diag.



