Through games of Oct. 8, 2022:
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Points | Prev. |
| 1 | North Central (Ill.) (19) | 5-0 | 615 | 1 |
| 2 | Mount Union (5) | 5-0 | 598 | 2 |
| 3 | UW-Whitewater (1) | 4-1 | 574 | 3 |
| 4 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 5-1 | 553 | 4 |
| 5 | St. John's | 4-1 | 487 | 6 |
| 6 | Trinity (Texas) | 5-0 | 465 | 5 |
| 7 | Linfield | 4-0 | 462 | 7 |
| 8 | Johns Hopkins | 5-0 | 433 | 8 |
| 9 | UW-La Crosse | 4-1 | 403 | 9 |
| 10 | Hardin-Simmons | 4-1 | 398 | 10 |
| 11 | Bethel | 4-1 | 366 | 11 |
| 12 | Ithaca | 5-0 | 345 | 12 |
| 13 | Cortland | 5-0 | 342 | 13 |
| 14 | UW-River Falls | 4-1 | 307 | 17 |
| 15 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 3-2 | 286 | 14 |
| 16 | Delaware Valley | 6-0 | 244 | 15 |
| 17 | Wartburg | 6-0 | 202 | 20 |
| 18 | Randolph-Macon | 5-0 | 196 | 19 |
| 19 | UW-Oshkosh | 3-2 | 170 | 16 |
| 20 | Carnegie Mellon | 6-0 | 166 | 18 |
| 21 | Susquehanna | 5-0 | 160 | 21 |
| 22 | Albion | 6-0 | 111 | 22 |
| 23 | Huntingdon | 4-1 | 69 | 23 |
| 24 | Washington U. | 5-0 | 45 | -- |
| 25 | John Carroll | 4-1 | 29 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 24 Central; No. 25 DePauw.
Others receiving votes: Lake Forest 27; Utica 18; Washington & Jefferson 11; Central 8; Endicott 8; Birmingham-Southern 7; UW-Stout 7; Grove City 4; DePauw 3; Muhlenberg 2; Heidelberg 2; Middlebury 1; Mount St. Joseph 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.