Through games of Saturday, Sept. 29:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Mount Union (23) | 4-0 | 623 | 1 |
| 2 | Mary Hardin-Baylor (2) | 4-0 | 599 | 2 |
| 3 | Linfield | 4-0 | 563 | 3 |
| 4 | St. Thomas | 4-0 | 546 | 5 |
| 5 | UW-Whitewater | 3-1 | 520 | 4 |
| 6 | Wesley | 3-1 | 504 | 6 |
| 7 | Salisbury | 3-1 | 467 | 7 |
| 8 | Cal Lutheran | 2-1 | 430 | 8 |
| 9 | St. John Fisher | 4-0 | 393 | 9 |
| 10 | Bethel | 4-0 | 385 | 10 |
| 11 | North Central (Ill.) | 3-1 | 352 | 11 |
| 12 | Hobart | 5-0 | 337 | 12 |
| 13 | Illinois Wesleyan | 4-0 | 284 | 14 |
| 14 | UW-Platteville | 3-1 | 267 | 13 |
| 15 | Birmingham-Southern | 5-0 | 265 | 16 |
| 16 | Wabash | 3-1 | 218 | 17 |
| 17 | Widener | 5-0 | 208 | 18 |
| 18 | Johns Hopkins | 5-0 | 202 | 19 |
| 19 | UW-Oshkosh | 4-0 | 163 | 21 |
| 20 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 3-1 | 143 | 20 |
| 21 | Louisiana College | 3-1 | 97 | 23 |
| 22 | Franklin | 2-2 | 96 | 22 |
| 23 | Rowan | 4-1 | 76 | 25 |
| 24 | Huntingdon | 4-1 | 64 | 24 |
| 25 | Otterbein | 4-0 | 44 | --- |
Dropped out: No. 15 Baldwin Wallace.
Others receiving votes: Heidelberg 39; Coe 38; Baldwin Wallace 32; Waynesburg 32; Willamette 25; Wittenberg 25; Concordia-Moorhead 16; Illinois College 15; Ithaca 12; Salve Regina 10; Amherst 10; Brockport State 7; Albion 4; Alfred 4; Carnegie Mellon 3; Millsaps 2; Trinity (Texas) 2; Pacific Lutheran 1; Washington and Jefferson 1; Washington and Lee 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.