The D3football.com Top 25, through games of Saturday, Sept. 15:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Mount Union (23) | 2-0 | 623 | 2 |
| 2 | Mary Hardin-Baylor (2) | 2-0 | 598 | 4 |
| 3 | Linfield | 3-0 | 557 | 5 |
| 4 | UW-Whitewater | 1-1 | 530 | 1 |
| 5 | St. Thomas | 3-0 | 527 | 6 |
| 6 | Wesley | 2-1 | 512 | 3 |
| 7 | Wabash | 2-0 | 455 | 8 |
| 8 | Salisbury | 2-1 | 449 | 7 |
| 9 | Cal Lutheran | 1-1 | 411 | 10 |
| 10 | St. John Fisher | 3-0 | 373 | 9 |
| 11 | Bethel | 2-0 | 345 | 12 |
| 12 | North Central (Ill.) | 2-1 | 319 | 13 |
| 13 | Hobart | 3-0 | 296 | 14 |
| 14 | Baldwin Wallace | 2-0 | 270 | 15 |
| 15 | Illinois Wesleyan | 2-0 | 239 | 16 |
| 16 | UW-Platteville | 2-0 | 236 | 17 |
| 17 | Brockport State | 3-0 | 208 | --- |
| 18 | Birmingham-Southern | 3-0 | 152 | 18 |
| 19 | Buffalo State | 2-1 | 130 | --- |
| 20 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 2-1 | 99 | 19 |
| 21 | Widener | 3-0 | 95 | 22 |
| 22 | Hampden-Sydney | 2-0 | 93 | 24 |
| 23 | Thomas More | 1-1 | 88 | 21 |
| 24 | Johns Hopkins | 3-0 | 81 | --- |
| 25 | Franklin | 1-2 | 75 | 20 |
Dropped out: No. 11 Trinity (Texas), No. 23 Centre, No. 25 Redlands.
Others receiving votes: UW-Oshkosh 68; Trinity (Texas) 56; Rowan 45; Heidelberg 35; Louisiana College 30; Willamette 19; Illinois College 18; Wittenberg 17; Albright 16; Coe 13; Wartburg 11; Centre 10; Elmhurst 6; Carnegie Mellon 4; John Carroll 4; Amherst 3; Concordia-Moorhead 3; Salve Regina 3; Waynesburg 2; Trinity (Conn.) 1.
The D3football.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly.