Through games of Saturday, Oct. 6:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Mount Union (23) | 5-0 | 623 | 1 |
| 2 | Mary Hardin-Baylor (2) | 5-0 | 598 | 2 |
| 3 | Linfield | 4-0 | 563 | 3 |
| 4 | St. Thomas | 5-0 | 547 | 4 |
| 5 | UW-Whitewater | 4-1 | 499 | 5 |
| 6 | Wesley | 4-1 | 489 | 6 |
| 7 | Salisbury | 4-1 | 473 | 7 |
| 8 | Cal Lutheran | 3-1 | 412 | 8 |
| 9 | Bethel | 5-0 | 383 | 10 |
| 10 | North Central (Ill.) | 4-1 | 373 | 11 |
| 11 | St. John Fisher | 4-1 | 354 | 9 |
| 12 | Hobart | 6-0 | 320 | 12 |
| 13 | UW-Platteville | 4-1 | 314 | 14 |
| 14 | Illinois Wesleyan | 5-0 | 304 | 13 |
| 15 | Wabash | 4-1 | 234 | 16 |
| 16 | Birmingham-Southern | 5-1 | 233 | 15 |
| 17 | Widener | 6-0 | 221 | 17 |
| 18 | Johns Hopkins | 5-0 | 204 | 18 |
| 19 | UW-Oshkosh | 5-0 | 200 | 19 |
| 20 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 4-1 | 147 | 20 |
| 21 | Louisiana College | 4-1 | 106 | 23 |
| 22 | Rowan | 5-1 | 95 | 23 |
| 23 | Huntingdon | 5-1 | 90 | 24 |
| 24 | Franklin | 3-2 | 83 | 22 |
| T25 | Otterbein | 5-0 | 55 | 25 |
| T25 | Heidelberg | 5-0 | 55 | --- |
Dropped out: None.
Others receiving votes: Concordia-Moorhead 31; Coe 28; Willamette 23; Baldwin Wallace 21; Waynesburg 16; Salve Regina 10; Brockport State 8; Wittenberg 5; Carnegie Mellon 2; Pacific Lutheran 2; Alfred 2; Trinity (Conn.) 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.