The key word for the 1982 SCOL football season was to be balance. The league had been extremely close for the past two years. 1980 had been a nightmare for engravers, who had to crowd Circleville, Wilmington and Washington C.H. on the championship cup. Before that, you had to go all the way back to 1958 to find three teams ending in a tie for the title, when McClain, WCH and Franklin Heights all finished the season in a tie. There were only six teams in the SCOL in 1958, and three of them tied for the championship.