Through games of Sunday, Oct. 30:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | UW-Whitewater (20) | 8-0 | 620 | 1 |
| 2 | Mount Union (5) | 8-0 | 605 | 2 |
| 3 | St. Thomas | 9-0 | 563 | 3 |
| 4 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 8-0 | 554 | 4 |
| 5 | Linfield | 7-0 | 531 | 5 |
| 6 | North Central (Ill.) | 7-1 | 470 | 6 |
| 7 | Wesley | 7-1 | 464 | 7 |
| 8 | Thomas More | 8-0 | 414 | 8 |
| 9 | Cal Lutheran | 6-1 | 395 | 10 |
| 10 | Wabash | 8-0 | 358 | 9 |
| 11 | Salisbury | 7-1 | 319 | 11 |
| 12 | Delaware Valley | 8-0 | 311 | 12 |
| 13 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 7-1 | 279 | 13 |
| 14 | Johns Hopkins | 8-0 | 256 | 14 |
| 15 | Redlands | 6-1 | 240 | 16 |
| 16 | Kean | 7-1 | 216 | 18 |
| 17 | Montclair State | 7-1 | 202 | 17 |
| 18 | Trinity (Texas) | 8-0 | 155 | 23 |
| 19 | St. Olaf | 7-1 | 141 | 19 |
| 20 | Louisiana College | 7-1 | 136 | 21 |
| 21 | Illinois Wesleyan | 7-1 | 133 | 24 |
| 22 | Franklin | 7-1 | 126 | 22 |
| 23 | Bethel | 6-2 | 121 | 20 |
| 24 | Hobart | 6-0 | 79 | 25 |
| 25 | Centre | 7-0 | 76 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 15 UW-Oshkosh.
Others receiving votes: McMurry 67; Wittenberg 55; Cortland State 48; Baldwin-Wallace 46; UW-Oshkosh 22; Dubuque 20; Hampden-Sydney 20; Wartburg 16; Monmouth 13; Adrian 12; Trinity (Conn.) 11; St. John Fisher 8; Widener 7; Birmingham-Southern 6; Washington and Lee 6; Lewis and Clark 2; Huntingdon 1; Lycoming 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.