Through games of Sept. 29:
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Points | Prev. |
| 1 | Mount Union (22) | 4-0 | 622 | 1 |
| 2 | Mary Hardin-Baylor (3) | 4-0 | 601 | 2 |
| 3 | St. Thomas | 4-0 | 573 | 3 |
| 4 | Brockport | 4-0 | 534 | 4 |
| 5 | Frostburg State | 3-0 | 500 | 6 |
| 6 | Wesley | 4-0 | 477 | 7 |
| 7 | Hardin-Simmons | 4-0 | 466 | 8 |
| 8 | UW-Whitewater | 3-0 | 450 | 10 |
| 9 | St. John's | 4-0 | 437 | 9 |
| 10 | UW-Oshkosh | 3-1 | 375 | 12 |
| 11 | John Carroll | 3-1 | 309 | 15 |
| 12 | Washington and Jefferson | 5-0 | 287 | 13 |
| 13 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 3-1 | 277 | 21 |
| 14 | Berry | 5-0 | 254 | 17 |
| 15 | Trine | 4-0 | 242 | 16 |
| 16 | Wittenberg | 4-0 | 223 | 14 |
| 17 | North Central (Ill.) | 3-1 | 210 | 5 |
| 18 | Illinois Wesleyan | 3-1 | 203 | 19 |
| 19 | Case Western Reserve | 4-0 | 202 | 18 |
| 20 | RPI | 4-0 | 138 | 20 |
| 21 | Delaware Valley | 4-1 | 132 | 22 |
| 22 | Whitworth | 3-0 | 124 | -- |
| 23 | Ithaca | 3-1 | 79 | 25 |
| 24 | Muhlenberg | 4-0 | 66 | -- |
| 25 | Linfield | 1-2 | 59 | 11 |
Dropped out: No. 23 UW-La Crosse; No. 24 Franklin & Marshall.
Others receiving votes: UW-La Crosse 45; Central 37; Johns Hopkins 31; Salisbury 26; UW-Platteville 24; Union 24; Wabash 22; Monmouth 15; Centre 15; Baldwin Wallace 14; Wartburg 11; Thomas More 5; Washington U. 4; Williams 4; Franklin & Marshall 3; Chapman 2; Alfred 1; Concordia-Moorhead 1; St. Olaf 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. Points are awarded on a 25-24-23-22-etc. basis.
The new No. 8: UW-Whitewater.
d3photography.com file photo by Daryl Tessmann