The Carolina Team is composed of two teams, the Panthers and Elon. The Panthers are an 8-letter professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. Elon is a 4-letter university located in Elon, North Carolina. It is a private, coeducational liberal arts university that was founded in 1889.