Through end of 2021 season.
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Points | Prev. |
| 1 | Mary Hardin-Baylor (25) | 15-0 | 625 | 2 |
| 2 | North Central (Ill.) | 13-1 | 599 | 1 |
| 3 | UW-Whitewater | 13-1 | 571 | 3 |
| 4 | Mount Union | 13-1 | 541 | 4 |
| 5 | Linfield | 11-1 | 506 | 7 |
| 6 | Central | 12-1 | 476 | 8 |
| 7 | Muhlenberg | 11-2 | 453 | 15 |
| 8 | St. John's | 11-1 | 440 | 5 |
| 9 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 10-2 | 427 | 6 |
| 10 | Hardin-Simmons | 9-1 | 379 | 10 |
| 11 | UW-La Crosse | 9-3 | 359 | 11 |
| 12 | Trinity (Texas) | 9-1 | 340 | 16 |
| 13 | RPI | 11-2 | 326 | 18 |
| 14 | Johns Hopkins | 10-2 | 313 | 17 |
| 15 | Delaware Valley | 11-1 | 312 | 9 |
| 16 | Cortland | 11-1 | 258 | 13 |
| 17 | Bethel | 8-3 | 206 | 14 |
| 18 | Birmingham-Southern | 10-2 | 186 | 19 |
| 19 | Salisbury | 8-2 | 180 | 12 |
| 20 | UW-River Falls | 9-2 | 117 | 22 |
| 21 | Ithaca | 8-2 | 112 | 20 |
| 22 | Aurora | 8-3 | 58 | 23 |
| 23 | Randolph-Macon | 9-1 | 50 | 21 |
| 24 | Redlands | 8-2 | 48 | 25 |
| 25 | Lake Forest | 10-1 | 45 | 24 |
Dropped out: None.
Others receiving votes: DePauw 40; Carnegie Mellon 24; Baldwin Wallace 21; Williams 20; Albion 16; Heidelberg 16; UW-Oshkosh 11; John Carroll 10; Hobart 8; Union 8; Springfield 7; Susquehanna 5; Endicott 4; Huntingdon 3; Gustavus Adolphus 2; Lakeland 1; Rose-Hulman 1; Washington & Lee 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. Points are awarded on a 25-24-23-22-etc. basis.