Through games of Oct. 22:
| # | School (No. 1 votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Mount Union (14) | 7-0 | 605 | 1 |
| 2 | UW-Whitewater (2) | 7-0 | 597 | 2 |
| 3 | Mary Hardin-Baylor (8) | 7-0 | 589 | 3 |
| 4 | St. Thomas (1) | 7-0 | 551 | 4 |
| 5 | UW-Oshkosh | 6-1 | 513 | 5 |
| 6 | North Central (Ill.) | 7-0 | 499 | 6 |
| 7 | Linfield | 5-1 | 454 | 8 |
| 8 | St. John's | 7-1 | 429 | 10 |
| 9 | Johns Hopkins | 7-0 | 424 | 9 |
| 10 | Hardin-Simmons | 6-1 | 381 | 11 |
| 11 | UW-Platteville | 5-2 | 354 | 7 |
| 12 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 7-1 | 339 | 12 |
| 13 | Thomas More | 7-1 | 321 | 13 |
| 14 | Stevenson | 7-0 | 297 | 15 |
| 15 | Alfred | 7-0 | 238 | 17 |
| 16 | St. Lawrence | 7-0 | 221 | 16 |
| 17 | Coe | 8-0 | 213 | 18 |
| 18 | East Texas Baptist | 6-1 | 170 | 19 |
| 19 | Salisbury | 6-1 | 155 | 22 |
| 20 | Wabash | 6-1 | 146 | 20 |
| 21 | John Carroll | 6-1 | 143 | 23 |
| 22 | Denison | 7-0 | 129 | 24 |
| 23 | Wittenberg | 6-1 | 67 | -- |
| 24 | St. John Fisher | 6-1 | 58 | -- |
| 25 | Case Western Reserve | 7-0 | 56 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 14 Franklin; No. 21 Rowan; No. 25 Delaware Valley.
Others receiving votes: Monmouth (Ill.) 48; Wesley 20; Berry 19; Western New England 13; Frostburg State 11; Franklin 10; Whitworth 8; UW-La Crosse 7; Huntingdon 7; Concordia-Moorhead 6; Maryville (Tenn.) 5; Dubuque 5; Hendrix 4; Rowan 4; Hobart 3; Muhlenberg 2; Westminster (Pa.) 2; Olivet 1; Washington U. 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.