Lol, alternative facts I guess..
Your alternative facts? Because you assumed, a false assumption, to understand my point. You were wrong, because I know better than you what my point was. Your misunderstanding is not justification for being condescending. I tried not to be, I didn't try to make fun of you, but you simply failed to grasp my point. And you still are failing... I will try to elaborate since you are fixating on one thing and missing my broader point. I don't want to have a needless back and forth, because you get the point or you don't (you used a post kick six game as an example, which was an aberration).
A: Alabama is a big draw. Auburn is not a big draw.
B: People tune in to watch Alabama. As long as Alabama keeps playing SEC games, they'll keep generated revenue for the SEC.
C: The same number of SEC games will be played.
We live in an era in which every single SEC game is on TV! Every single one! I said, quite clearly that Auburn and Alabama was a big game because it was two football powers playing each other. The part that seems to be going over your head, while you fixate on single matchups is that this isn't and can't be about one game, because to reiterate every single game will be on television! As I said before, they're all still playing in the SEC.
You want to talk Vandy, Missouri, and Auburn, but there's 14 teams in the SEC! I already mentioned possible match-ups but I guess I have to really spell it out. It's not just Alabama vs. Missouri, which is capable of being a big draw (heck even Alabama vs. Miss St. is capable of being a big draw). To elaborate further on Alabama vs. Missouri,
it's not those ratings vs the Iron Bowl, it's how many more people watch that game than would have watched the SEC West opponent Missouri would have been playing! It's as I said the possibility of new rivals, like Georgia vs. Texas A&M, it's Auburn vs. Florida, it's Auburn vs. Tennessee. It's also increased interest when Alabama and Auburn do meet periodically, for instance in the SECCG. Yes, you are losing one match-up, but I say yet again it's not that much money! That's easy enough to understand because you're gaining all these other match-ups in return, and there will be interest in those and you'd better believe the SEC would look at things like the rivalry games and try to insure they stay interesting. I never disputed the notion that something would be lost, just that it's not that big a deal. You lose that game, you lose the west match-ups, but you make the east more interesting. What's the big deal?
Edit: To try to explain this in terms that might be understandable, let me put it this way. Let's say for the sake of argument that Alabama vs. Auburn gets 10 million views right? And Missouri vs. average SEC West opponent gets 5 million viewers. Now, does Alabama vs Missouri have to get 10 million to break even? No, it just needs to get 7.5 million. That's just one example, but we're talking about giving up some things and gaining others. The Iron Bowl isn't that big, isn't so important, as I asserted, that the revenue can't be made up by other interesting match-ups that will be created.