D3football.com Top 25, 2016 preseason

Entering the 2016 season:

# School (1st votes) Rec. Pts. D3football.com will rank all 248 teams in Kickoff 2016! Find out how you can subscribe.
1 Mount Union (18) 15-0 613
2 Linfield (3) 12-1 583
3 UW-Whitewater (3) 12-2 574
4 St. Thomas (1) 14-1 536
5 Mary Hardin-Baylor 11-2 523
6 UW-Oshkosh 11-2 482
7 Wesley 11-2 417
8 Wheaton (Ill.) 11-1 397
9 St. John's 10-2 374
10 Hardin-Simmons 9-2 354  
11 Thomas More 11-1 332  
12 UW-Platteville 8-2 308  
13 North Central (Ill.) 7-3 291  
14 Wabash 12-1 290  
15 Johns Hopkins 11-1 277  
16 Albright 10-2 196  
17 Cortland 9-3 191  
18 John Carroll 8-2 171  
19 Whitworth 9-2 129  
20 Washington and Lee 10-1 128  
21 Texas Lutheran 8-2 117  
22 Ohio Northern 9-3 106  
23 Salisbury 7-3 82  
24 Huntingdon 10-2 76  
25 Delaware Valley 9-2 63  

Others receiving votes: Wartburg 48; Washington and Jefferson 44; Hobart 41; Franklin 33; Stevenson 30; St. John Fisher 29; Hendrix 29; East Texas Baptist 28; St. Lawrence 28; Guilford 25; DePauw 22; Wittenberg 21; Case Western Reserve 18; Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 15; Rose-Hulman 14; Dubuque 13; RPI 13; St. Norbert 10; Concordia-Moorhead 10; Westminster (Pa.) 8; Muhlenberg 6; Berry 5; Kean 5; Amherst 4; Carnegie Mellon 3; Moravian 3; Albion 3; Alfred 2; Framingham State 2; Bethel 1; Hampden-Sydney 1; Rowan 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.