As Luvepoker say "going out with TT or QQ" is a very incomplete story, which does not really tell, what happened. What was the effective stack size, what was your stack size relative to other players, what was the action, what was the position of the players involved, was there multiway action and so on and so forth.
Obviously setups like AK against QQ for 20BB effective happen at the final table as well as everywhere else in an MTT, and no neither hand should typically fold. But push-fold ranges can be quite affected by the ICM-considerations, and sometimes you do need to call off tighter, than you might think. You can learn and improve a lot by analysing final table situations in ICMizer.
And there are also other situations, where ICM considerations should lead you to take a lower variance line. Like maybe not 3-betting against a big stack, if several players are much shorter than you. Checking back the turn for pot control. Refraining from a light valuebet on the river to not reopen the betting.
There is no problem in finishing in 8. place, if you were one of the shortest stacks, when the final table began. But if this consistently happen, even when you were an average or above average stack, you might be taking to many risks at the beginning of the final table.