Through games of Nov. 13:
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Points | Prev. |
| 1 | North Central (Ill.) (25) | 10-0 | 625 | 1 |
| 2 | Mount Union | 10-0 | 571 | 2 |
| 3 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 9-1 | 564 | 3 |
| 4 | St. John's | 9-1 | 527 | 5 |
| 5 | Linfield | 9-0 | 523 | 4 |
| 6 | Trinity (Texas) | 10-0 | 484 | 6 |
| 7 | UW-La Crosse | 9-1 | 472 | 7 |
| 8 | UW-Whitewater | 8-2 | 434 | 10 |
| 9 | Hardin-Simmons | 9-1 | 425 | 8 |
| 10 | Ithaca | 10-0 | 389 | 12 |
| 11 | Susquehanna | 10-0 | 341 | 13 |
| 12 | Wartburg | 10-0 | 331 | 15 |
| 13 | Bethel | 8-2 | 314 | 9 |
| 14 | Delaware Valley | 10-0 | 306 | 14 |
| 15 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 8-2 | 285 | 16 |
| 16 | Randolph-Macon | 10-0 | 247 | 18 |
| 17 | Cortland | 9-1 | 246 | 11 |
| 18 | Johns Hopkins | 9-1 | 243 | 17 |
| 19 | Carnegie Mellon | 10-0 | 202 | 19 |
| 20 | Huntingdon | 9-1 | 148 | 21 |
| 21 | John Carroll | 8-2 | 103 | 22 |
| 22 | Endicott | 10-0 | 75 | 23 |
| 23 | Alma | 10-0 | 67 | -- |
| 24 | Albion | 9-1 | 32 | 20 |
| 25 | Mount St. Joseph | 10-0 | 27 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 24 UW-River Falls; No. 25 Birmingham-Southern.
Others receiving votes: UW-River Falls 26; UW-Oshkosh 17; Trinity (Conn.) 15; DePauw 14; Washington & Jefferson 13; Washington U. 10; Salisbury 9; Baldwin Wallace 9; Howard Payne 7; Lake Forest 7; Birmingham-Southern 6; Bridgewater (Va.) 3; Ursinus 3; Utica 3; Aurora 2.
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.