Brandon Judd, Deseret News
PROVO — The cougar statue outside of LaVell Edwards Stadium was vandalized the night before the BYU-Utah football game, the first game in Provo between the two schools since 2013.
Brigham Young University Police on site confirmed the vandalism happened overnight and that there was not shrink-wrap on the cougar statue, which sits on the southwest corner outside of the stadium.
By 11:30 a.m., BYU grounds crew personnel were finishing cleaning the statue of the vandalism.
That was the only statue on BYU’s campus that was vandalized. Pictures of the vandalized statue began to circulate in the early morning hours on Saturday.