Through games of Oct. 15, 2022:
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Points | Prev. |
| 1 | North Central (Ill.) (21) | 6-0 | 619 | 1 |
| 2 | Mount Union (4) | 6-0 | 591 | 2 |
| 3 | UW-Whitewater | 5-1 | 573 | 3 |
| 4 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 6-1 | 554 | 4 |
| 5 | St. John's | 5-1 | 497 | 5 |
| 6 | Linfield | 5-0 | 468 | 7 |
| 7 | Trinity (Texas) | 6-0 | 465 | 6 |
| 8 | Johns Hopkins | 6-0 | 431 | 8 |
| 9 | UW-La Crosse | 5-1 | 411 | 9 |
| 10 | Hardin-Simmons | 5-1 | 398 | 10 |
| 11 | Bethel | 5-1 | 385 | 11 |
| 12 | Ithaca | 6-0 | 348 | 12 |
| 13 | Cortland | 6-0 | 341 | 13 |
| 14 | Delaware Valley | 7-0 | 289 | 16 |
| 15 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 4-2 | 259 | 15 |
| 16 | Wartburg | 7-0 | 253 | 17 |
| 17 | Randolph-Macon | 6-0 | 220 | 18 |
| 18 | Carnegie Mellon | 7-0 | 194 | 20 |
| 19 | Susquehanna | 6-0 | 186 | 21 |
| 20 | Albion | 6-0 | 146 | 22 |
| 21 | Huntingdon | 5-1 | 90 | 23 |
| 22 | UW-River Falls | 4-2 | 85 | 14 |
| 23 | Washington U. | 6-0 | 84 | 24 |
| 24 | UW-Oshkosh | 3-3 | 70 | 19 |
| 25 | John Carroll | 5-1 | 58 | 25 |
Dropped out: None.
Others receiving votes: Utica 43; Endicott 11; Grove City 10; UW-Platteville 8; UW-Stout 7; Central 5; Washington & Jefferson 4; Carleton 3; Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 3; Mount St. Joseph 3; Birmingham-Southern 3; Ripon 3; Heidelberg 2; Lake Forest 2; Alma 1; Muhlenberg 1; 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. Points are awarded on a 25-24-23-22-etc. basis.