The Flying Fleet compete in the NCAA Division II as an independent, but will join the South Atlantic Conference as an associate member in 2022.

The program played its first game in 70 years on 27 February 2021, defeating Barton College 30-28.

In 2018, Erskine College announced return of the football program for the 2020 season competing in NCAA Division II.

[15] In 1939, Erskine was a founding member of the South Atlantic Conference, which was for "small liberal arts schools that do not place undue emphasis upon athletics.

They added Rollins and Stetson in 1940, and then Mercer in 1941 before it disbanded due to several programs discontinuing football.