SEC West flexing its muscle against the East

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — There's a new hierarchy in the Southeastern Conference. And the royalty no longer lies in the SEC East.

While they're panicking in Georgia, protesting in Tennessee and preparing for basketball in Kentucky, the teams in the West just keep on winning.

However, the power shift to that "other" division has gone largely unnoticed. The bulk of the national SEC attention the last 18 years has focused on the East.

Auburn senior guard Mike Berry, who grew up in central Tennessee watching the Volunteers slug it out with Florida and Georgia every fall for a ticket to the SEC title game, said the the tide has turned.

"I've always felt like we've had some …