As has been rumored for a few months, the Michigan State University Spartans are officially changing their shade of green … sort of. The “new” green, actually a throwback to the shade MSU sported before 1997, the year they made the switch to their current shade, has already been seen on several sports uniforms. The move to change shades is actually a move toward standardizing the green that will be used campus-wide, from football uniforms to signs to building logos, and came about after discussions with Nike about getting all of MSU’s sports teams on the same page, design-wise. The old shade was officially Pantone Matching System Color 341, while the new is 567. This comes on the heels of plans for an updated Spartan logo being scrapped after near-universal outcry from MSU’s fanbase.