Entering the 2016 season:
# | School (1st votes) | Rec. | Pts. | D3football.com will rank all 248 teams in Kickoff 2016! Find out how you can subscribe. |
1 | Mount Union (18) | 15-0 | 613 | |
2 | Linfield (3) | 12-1 | 583 | |
3 | UW-Whitewater (3) | 12-2 | 574 | |
4 | St. Thomas (1) | 14-1 | 536 | |
5 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 11-2 | 523 | |
6 | UW-Oshkosh | 11-2 | 482 | |
7 | Wesley | 11-2 | 417 | |
8 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 11-1 | 397 | |
9 | St. John's | 10-2 | 374 | |
10 | Hardin-Simmons | 9-2 | 354 | |
11 | Thomas More | 11-1 | 332 | |
12 | UW-Platteville | 8-2 | 308 | |
13 | North Central (Ill.) | 7-3 | 291 | |
14 | Wabash | 12-1 | 290 | |
15 | Johns Hopkins | 11-1 | 277 | |
16 | Albright | 10-2 | 196 | |
17 | Cortland | 9-3 | 191 | |
18 | John Carroll | 8-2 | 171 | |
19 | Whitworth | 9-2 | 129 | |
20 | Washington and Lee | 10-1 | 128 | |
21 | Texas Lutheran | 8-2 | 117 | |
22 | Ohio Northern | 9-3 | 106 | |
23 | Salisbury | 7-3 | 82 | |
24 | Huntingdon | 10-2 | 76 | |
25 | Delaware Valley | 9-2 | 63 |
Others receiving votes: Wartburg 48; Washington and Jefferson 44; Hobart 41; Franklin 33; Stevenson 30; St. John Fisher 29; Hendrix 29; East Texas Baptist 28; St. Lawrence 28; Guilford 25; DePauw 22; Wittenberg 21; Case Western Reserve 18; Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 15; Rose-Hulman 14; Dubuque 13; RPI 13; St. Norbert 10; Concordia-Moorhead 10; Westminster (Pa.) 8; Muhlenberg 6; Berry 5; Kean 5; Amherst 4; Carnegie Mellon 3; Moravian 3; Albion 3; Alfred 2; Framingham State 2; Bethel 1; Hampden-Sydney 1; Rowan 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.