Through games of Oct. 7:
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Points | Prev. |
| 1 | Mary Hardin-Baylor (21) | 5-0 | 621 | 1 |
| 2 | Mount Union (4) | 5-0 | 599 | 2 |
| 3 | UW-Oshkosh | 4-0 | 576 | 3 |
| 4 | North Central (Ill.) | 5-0 | 551 | 4 |
| 5 | Hardin-Simmons | 4-1 | 493 | 5 |
| 6 | St. Thomas | 5-1 | 478 | 6 |
| 7 | Linfield | 3-1 | 463 | 7 |
| 8 | St. John's | 5-1 | 428 | 8 |
| 9 | UW-Platteville | 5-0 | 426 | 9 |
| 10 | Delaware Valley | 6-0 | 414 | 10 |
| 11 | Illinois Wesleyan | 5-1 | 354 | 12 |
| 12 | Wittenberg | 5-0 | 312 | 14 |
| 13 | Brockport | 5-0 | 291 | 15 |
| 14 | Wesley | 4-1 | 284 | 19 |
| 15 | Washington and Jefferson | 5-0 | 279 | 16 |
| 16 | Case Western Reserve | 5-0 | 244 | 17 |
| 17 | Alfred | 5-0 | 227 | 18 |
| 18 | Frostburg State | 4-1 | 202 | 11 |
| 19 | Berry | 6-0 | 146 | 24 |
| 20 | Wabash | 5-0 | 141 | 25 |
| 21 | George Fox | 4-1 | 96 | -- |
| 22 | Wartburg | 5-0 | 86 | -- |
| 23 | Concordia-Moorhead | 4-1 | 84 | 20 |
| 24 | Johns Hopkins | 5-1 | 61 | -- |
| 25 | Springfield | 6-0 | 52 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 13 Wheaton; No. 21 Heidelberg; No. 22 Whitworth; No. 23 UW-Stout.
Others receiving votes: Heidelberg 35; UW-La Crosse 32; Wheaton (Ill.) 21; DePauw 21; Redlands 19; Salisbury 12; Framingham State 10; UW-Whitewater 9; UW-Stout 9, Millikin 9; Albright 9; John Carroll 8; Carthage 7; Trine 5; Carnegie Mellon 5; Westminster (Pa.) 3; Trinity (Conn.) 2; Whitworth 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.