Through the end of the 2012 season:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Mount Union (25) | 15-0 | 625 | 1 |
| 2 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 13-1 | 587 | 2 |
| 3 | St. Thomas | 14-1 | 585 | 4 |
| 4 | UW-Oshkosh | 13-1 | 547 | 5 |
| 5 | Linfield | 11-1 | 517 | 3 |
| 6 | Wesley | 10-2 | 512 | 6 |
| 7 | North Central (Ill.) | 9-3 | 437 | 14 |
| 8 | Elmhurst | 10-2 | 412 | 17 |
| 9 | Hobart | 12-1 | 391 | 7 |
| 10 | Widener | 11-1 | 384 | 9 |
| 11 | Salisbury | 9-3 | 322 | 11 |
| 12 | Bethel | 9-3 | 280 | 21 |
| 13 | UW-Platteville | 8-2 | 259 | 13 |
| 14 | Wittenberg | 10-2 | 256 | 24 |
| 15 | Coe | 10-1 | 236 | 10 |
| 16 | Cal Lutheran | 8-2 | 223 | 8 |
| 17 | Pacific Lutheran | 7-3 | 220 | 20 |
| 18 | Concordia-Moorhead | 8-2 | 217 | 22 |
| 19 | Heidelberg | 9-2 | 188 | 12 |
| 20 | Franklin | 9-3 | 184 | 16 |
| 21 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 8-2 | 155 | 15 |
| 22 | Johns Hopkins | 10-2 | 132 | 19 |
| 23 | Louisiana College | 8-3 | 117 | 23 |
| 24 | Cortland State | 9-2 | 110 | 18 |
| 25 | Rowan | 7-3 | 65 | 25 |
Dropped out: None.
Others receiving votes: Concordia-Chicago 50; Trinity (Conn.) 27; Huntingdon 17; Adrian 12; UW-Whitewater 9; St. John Fisher 8; Wabash 8; Waynesburg 8; Baldwin Wallace 7; Otterbein 7; Ohio Wesleyan 6; Washington and Lee 4; Washington and Jefferson 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.