I truly hate spoilers, but at this point, everything happened yesterday, so I am assuming people know about the Badminton controversy. Just in case, I'll put the rest below the jump...

Four teams of two (8 total players) conspired to LOSE matches yesterday in the hopes of getting better elimination round matchups. This is very controversial within the sport, and an initial IOC investigation has apparently disqualified all four teams from the rest of the Olympics.

I'm curious about the connection between this and college football. I think it's much more likely that an 11-0 Bama simply rests its best players in the Iron bowl - but is throwing games to avoid top teams a possibility?