Through end of 2012 regular season:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Mount Union (24) | 10-0 | 624 | 1 |
| 2 | Mary Hardin-Baylor (1) | 10-0 | 597 | 2 |
| 3 | Linfield | 9-0 | 556 | 3 |
| 4 | St. Thomas | 10-0 | 540 | 4 |
| 5 | UW-Oshkosh | 10-0 | 519 | 5 |
| 6 | Wesley | 8-1 | 510 | 6 |
| 7 | Hobart | 10-0 | 469 | 8 |
| 8 | Cal Lutheran | 8-1 | 456 | 7 |
| 9 | Widener | 9-0 | 401 | 9 |
| 10 | Coe | 10-0 | 371 | 10 |
| 11 | Salisbury | 8-2 | 353 | 11 |
| 12 | Heidelberg | 9-1 | 325 | 13 |
| 13 | UW-Platteville | 8-2 | 316 | 12 |
| 14 | North Central (Ill.) | 8-2 | 273 | 14 |
| 15 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 8-2 | 252 | 15 |
| 16 | Franklin | 8-2 | 241 | 16 |
| 17 | Elmhurst | 9-1 | 179 | 20 |
| 18 | Cortland State | 8-1 | 156 | 19 |
| 19 | Johns Hopkins | 9-1 | 134 | 21 |
| 20 | Pacific Lutheran | 7-2 | 128 | 24 |
| 21 | Bethel | 8-2 | 125 | 22 |
| 22 | Concordia-Moorhead | 8-2 | 115 | 23 |
| 23 | Louisiana College | 8-2 | 83 | -- |
| 24 | Wittenberg | 9-1 | 81 | -- |
| 25 | Rowan | 7-2 | 65 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 17 Huntingdon; No. 18 Waynesburg; No. 25 Wabash.
Others receiving votes: Adrian 57; Wabash 48; Waynesburg 44; Concordia-Chicago 30; Trinity (Conn.) 24; Huntingdon 13; Washington and Lee 10; Baldwin Wallace 9; Washington and Jefferson 9; Otterbein 5; UW-Whitewater 3; Ohio Wesleyan 3; Willamette 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.