Through games of Saturday, Oct. 1:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | UW-Whitewater (21) | 4-0 | 621 | 1 |
| 2 | Mount Union (4) | 4-0 | 603 | 2 |
| 3 | St. Thomas | 5-0 | 566 | 3 |
| 4 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 4-0 | 557 | 4 |
| 5 | Linfield | 3-0 | 527 | 6 |
| 6 | North Central (Ill.) | 3-1 | 449 | 9 |
| 7 | Wesley | 3-1 | 443 | 11 |
| 8 | Thomas More | 4-0 | 426 | 8 |
| 9 | Bethel | 3-1 | 410 | 5 |
| 10 | Kean | 4-0 | 343 | 10 |
| 11 | Montclair State | 4-0 | 310 | 12 |
| 12 | Wabash | 4-0 | 298 | 15 |
| 13 | Cal Lutheran | 2-1 | 296 | 20 |
| 14 | Wittenberg | 5-0 | 274 | 16 |
| 15 | Cortland State | 3-1 | 236 | 18 |
| 16 | Delaware Valley | 5-0 | 222 | 21 |
| 17 | Redlands | 2-1 | 195 | 13 |
| 18 | Illinois Wesleyan | 4-0 | 180 | -- |
| 19 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 3-1 | 161 | 7 |
| 20 | Wartburg | 4-1 | 144 | 22 |
| 21 | Johns Hopkins | 5-0 | 124 | 23 |
| 22 | Salisbury | 4-0 | 115 | 25 |
| 23 | Alfred | 3-1 | 78 | 14 |
| 24 | Louisiana College | 3-1 | 59 | 19 |
| 25 | Franklin | 4-1 | 51 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 17 Trine, No. 24 Ohio Northern.
Others receiving votes: Hobart 39; Ohio Northern 39; Dubuque 38; St. Olaf 38; Adrian 36; UW-Oshkosh 36; Monmouth 27; Birmingham-Southern 25; Pacific Lutheran 20; UW-Eau Claire 20; Muskingum 16; Trine 16; McMurry 15; St. John Fisher 15; Hampden-Sydney 13; Trinity (Texas) 13; Endicott 10; UW-Platteville 7; Lebanon Valley 5; Augsburg 4; Baldwin-Wallace 2; Centre 2; Springfield 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.