Through games of Saturday, Oct. 8:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | UW-Whitewater (21) | 5-0 | 621 | 1 |
| 2 | Mount Union (4) | 5-0 | 604 | 2 |
| 3 | St. Thomas | 6-0 | 562 | 3 |
| 4 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 5-0 | 558 | 4 |
| 5 | Linfield | 4-0 | 530 | 5 |
| 6 | North Central (Ill.) | 4-1 | 462 | 6 |
| 7 | Wesley | 4-1 | 434 | 7 |
| 8 | Thomas More | 5-0 | 427 | 8 |
| 9 | Bethel | 4-1 | 421 | 9 |
| 10 | Kean | 5-0 | 383 | 10 |
| 11 | Montclair State | 5-0 | 337 | 11 |
| 12 | Wabash | 5-0 | 328 | 12 |
| 13 | Cal Lutheran | 3-1 | 307 | 13 |
| 14 | Delaware Valley | 6-0 | 246 | 16 |
| 15 | Redlands | 3-1 | 220 | 17 |
| 16 | Illinois Wesleyan | 5-0 | 203 | 18 |
| 17 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 4-1 | 189 | 19 |
| 18 | Salisbury | 5-0 | 185 | 22 |
| 19 | Wartburg | 5-1 | 163 | 20 |
| 20 | Johns Hopkins | 5-0 | 156 | 21 |
| 21 | Louisiana College | 4-1 | 88 | 24 |
| 22 | Franklin | 5-1 | 79 | 25 |
| 23 | Alfred | 4-1 | 62 | 23 |
| 24 | Birmingham-Southern | 5-0 | 61 | -- |
| 25 | UW-Oshkosh | 4-1 | 59 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 14 Wittenberg, No. 15 Cortland State.
Others receiving votes: Cortland State 53; Huntingdon 46; Wittenberg 40; St. Olaf 36; Hobart 35; Monmouth 32; Adrian 31; Trinity (Texas) 28; Ohio Northern 26; Hampden-Sydney 22; McMurry 18; Dubuque 18; Pacific Lutheran 16; Trine 15; Endicott 6; Lebanon Valley 6; UW-Platteville 6; Baldwin-Wallace 5; 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.