Through games of Sept. 4, 2022:
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Points | Prev. |
| 1 | Mary Hardin-Baylor (25) | 1-0 | 625 | 1 |
| 2 | North Central (Ill.) | 0-0 | 586 | 2 |
| 3 | Mount Union | 1-0 | 574 | 3 |
| 4 | St. John's | 1-0 | 558 | 5 |
| 5 | Hardin-Simmons | 1-0 | 495 | 6 |
| 6 | UW-Whitewater | 0-1 | 467 | 4 |
| 7 | Linfield | 1-0 | 455 | 7 |
| 8 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 0-0 | 448 | 8 |
| 9 | Trinity (Texas) | 1-0 | 398 | 9 |
| 10 | Johns Hopkins | 1-0 | 397 | 10 |
| 11 | Bethel | 1-0 | 357 | 13 |
| 12 | UW-La Crosse | 1-0 | 335 | 12 |
| 13 | Central | 1-0 | 300 | 14 |
| 14 | Delaware Valley | 1-0 | 288 | 15 |
| 15 | Cortland | 1-0 | 243 | 16 |
| 16 | Ithaca | 1-0 | 233 | 17 |
| 17 | UW-Oshkosh | 1-0 | 219 | 19 |
| 18 | Muhlenberg | 0-1 | 195 | 11 |
| 19 | UW-River Falls | 1-0 | 193 | 18 |
| 20 | Randolph-Macon | 1-0 | 133 | 21 |
| 21 | Salisbury | 1-0 | 117 | 22 |
| 22 | RPI | 1-0 | 114 | 20 |
| 23 | Hobart | 1-0 | 88 | 23 |
| 24 | Heidelberg | 1-0 | 81 | 24 |
| 25 | Susquehanna | 1-0 | 48 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 25 Birmingham-Southern.
Others receiving votes: Carnegie Mellon 46; Birmingham-Southern 36; Washington & Jefferson 23; Union 15; Lake Forest 11; Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 10; Wartburg 9; Albion 7; John Carroll 6; Coe 4; Gustavus Adolphus 3; UW-Stout 3; Williams 2; Huntingdon 1; Mount St. Joseph 1; Rowan 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.