No, the issue was Paterno's decision. The final score, as much as you want to pretend otherwise, matters.
They may have but Paterno made it easy on them
I played hockey at a very high level. Winning is what matters. It's a competition.
You won't because you need the bye and those teams in that 10-20 range know it's all about margin of victory--a single close call could be difference.
I'm not the delusional one. You want to focus on the pageantry of the game but sports, including college football, is purely a competition with the objective to win.
There's countless valid reasons to bash Harbaugh yet you want to complain he didn't take it easy on a top 10 team? Come on. You can criticize him for risking an injury that could hurt the team but he didn't owe us anything. Should have been crying in 2017 or 2008?