Through games of Oct. 6:
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Points | Prev. |
| 1 | Mount Union (19) | 5-0 | 619 | 1 |
| 2 | Mary Hardin-Baylor (6) | 5-0 | 605 | 2 |
| 3 | St. Thomas | 5-0 | 570 | 3 |
| 4 | Brockport | 5-0 | 536 | 4 |
| 5 | Frostburg State | 4-0 | 516 | 5 |
| 6 | UW-Whitewater | 4-0 | 502 | 8 |
| 7 | Wesley | 4-1 | 475 | 6 |
| 8 | St. John's | 5-0 | 427 | 9 |
| 9 | Hardin-Simmons | 4-1 | 363 | 7 |
| 10 | John Carroll | 4-1 | 359 | 11 |
| 11 | Washington and Jefferson | 6-0 | 341 | 12 |
| 12 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 4-1 | 340 | 13 |
| 13 | UW-Oshkosh | 3-2 | 287 | 10 |
| 14 | Berry | 6-0 | 263 | 14 |
| 15 | Trine | 5-0 | 250 | 15 |
| 16 | Wittenberg | 5-0 | 238 | 16 |
| 17 | North Central (Ill.) | 4-1 | 212 | 17 |
| 18 | Illinois Wesleyan | 4-1 | 210 | 18 |
| 19 | Whitworth | 4-0 | 179 | 22 |
| 20 | RPI | 5-0 | 165 | 20 |
| 21 | Case Western Reserve | 4-1 | 131 | 19 |
| 22 | Delaware Valley | 4-1 | 101 | 21 |
| 23 | Muhlenberg | 5-0 | 91 | 24 |
| 24 | Linfield | 2-2 | 66 | 25 |
| 25 | Johns Hopkins | 5-1 | 48 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 23 Ithaca.
Others receiving votes: UW-La Crosse 45; Central (Iowa) 37; Salisbury 29; Baldwin Wallace 26; UW-Platteville 25; Centre 17; Monmouth 17; Thomas More 9; Ithaca 9; Alfred 5; Washington U. 4; Randolph-Macon 3; Bethel 2; Marietta 2; Williams 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.
De Jackson flies parallel to the ground to help bring down a Hardin-Simmons ballcarrier.
UMHB athletics photo