Through games of Sept. 10, 2022:
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Points | Prev. |
| 1 | North Central (Ill.) (14) | 1-0 | 605 | 2 |
| 2 | St. John's (7) | 2-0 | 594 | 4 |
| 3 | Mount Union (4) | 1-0 | 577 | 3 |
| 4 | UW-Whitewater | 1-1 | 555 | 6 |
| 5 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 1-1 | 523 | 1 |
| 6 | Hardin-Simmons | 1-0 | 497 | 5 |
| 7 | Trinity (Texas) | 2-0 | 455 | 9 |
| 8 | Linfield | 1-0 | 416 | 7 |
| 9 | Johns Hopkins | 2-0 | 397 | 10 |
| 10 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 0-1 | 366 | 8 |
| 11 | UW-La Crosse | 2-0 | 357 | 12 |
| 12 | Central | 2-0 | 334 | 13 |
| 13 | Ithaca | 2-0 | 300 | 16 |
| 14 | Cortland | 2-0 | 293 | 15 |
| 15 | Delaware Valley | 2-0 | 275 | 14 |
| 16 | UW-Oshkosh | 1-1 | 222 | 17 |
| 17 | UW-River Falls | 1-1 | 196 | 19 |
| 18 | Muhlenberg | 1-1 | 171 | 18 |
| 19 | Randolph-Macon | 2-0 | 170 | 20 |
| 20 | Carnegie Mellon | 2-0 | 154 | -- |
| 21 | Bethel | 1-1 | 138 | 11 |
| 22 | Heidelberg | 2-0 | 129 | 24 |
| 23 | Susquehanna | 2-0 | 79 | 25 |
| 24 | UW-Platteville | 1-1 | 59 | -- |
| 25 | Washington and Jefferson | 2-0 | 47 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 21 Salisbury; No. 22 RPI; No. 23 Hobart.
Others receiving votes: Albion 39; Wartburg 35; Union 29; RPI 24; Huntingdon 18; Lake Forest 16; Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 11; Gustavus Adolphus 10; Salisbury 7; George Fox 7; Berry 5; Washington U. 5; Birmingham-Southern 2; Hope 2; Centre 1; DePauw 1; Grove City 1; Rowan 1; UW-Stout 1; Williams 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.