The D3football.com Top 25 through games of Saturday, Oct. 13:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Mount Union (23) | 6-0 | 623 | 1 |
| 2 | Mary Hardin-Baylor (2) | 6-0 | 598 | 2 |
| 3 | Linfield | 5-0 | 559 | 3 |
| 4 | St. Thomas | 6-0 | 555 | 4 |
| 5 | UW-Whitewater | 5-1 | 519 | 5 |
| 6 | Wesley | 5-1 | 512 | 6 |
| 7 | Salisbury | 5-1 | 472 | 7 |
| 8 | Cal Lutheran | 4-1 | 432 | 8 |
| 9 | North Central (Ill.) | 5-1 | 400 | 10 |
| 10 | UW-Oshkosh | 6-0 | 361 | 19 |
| 11 | Hobart | 6-0 | 348 | 12 |
| 12 | Illinois Wesleyan | 6-0 | 316 | 14 |
| 13 | Wabash | 5-1 | 299 | 15 |
| 14 | Widener | 6-0 | 296 | 17 |
| 15 | Bethel | 5-1 | 255 | 9 |
| 16 | Johns Hopkins | 6-0 | 234 | 18 |
| 17 | Rowan | 5-1 | 182 | 22 |
| 18 | Huntingdon | 5-1 | 162 | 23 |
| 19 | Heidelberg | 6-0 | 161 | 25 |
| 20 | UW-Platteville | 4-2 | 121 | 13 |
| 21 | Alfred | 4-1 | 105 | -- |
| 22 | Willamette | 6-0 | 95 | -- |
| 23 | Franklin | 4-2 | 85 | 24 |
| 24 | St. John Fisher | 4-2 | 66 | 11 |
| 25 | Coe | 6-0 | 60 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 16 Birmingham-Southern, No. 20 Wheaton (Ill.), No. 21 Louisiana College, No. 25 (tied) Otterbein.
Others receiving votes: Louisiana College 40; Baldwin Wallace 38; Concordia-Moorhead 37; Waynesburg 34; Birmingham-Southern 28; Otterbein 23; Salve Regina 22; Elmhurst 20; Wheaton (Ill.) 19; Wittenberg 16; RPI 7; Trinity (Texas) 6; Cortland State 6; Washington and Lee 5; Pacific Lutheran 4; Lycoming 2; Augsburg 1; 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.