Through games of Oct. 15:
| # | School (No. 1 votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Mount Union (15) | 6-0 | 606 | 1 |
| 2 | UW-Whitewater (2) | 6-0 | 597 | 2 |
| 3 | Mary Hardin-Baylor (7) | 6-0 | 588 | 3 |
| 4 | St. Thomas (1) | 6-0 | 554 | 4 |
| 5 | UW-Oshkosh | 5-1 | 501 | 5 |
| 6 | North Central (Ill.) | 6-0 | 496 | 6 |
| 7 | UW-Platteville | 5-1 | 455 | 7 |
| 8 | Linfield | 4-1 | 434 | 8 |
| 9 | Johns Hopkins | 6-0 | 421 | 9 |
| 10 | St. John's | 6-1 | 413 | 10 |
| 11 | Hardin-Simmons | 6-0 | 403 | 12 |
| 12 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 6-1 | 325 | 11 |
| 13 | Thomas More | 6-1 | 304 | 14 |
| 14 | Franklin | 5-1 | 255 | 17 |
| 15 | Stevenson | 6-0 | 249 | 18 |
| 16 | St. Lawrence | 6-0 | 204 | 20 |
| 17 | Alfred | 6-0 | 169 | 23 |
| 18 | Coe | 7-0 | 139 | -- |
| 19 | East Texas Baptist | 5-1 | 137 | 16 |
| 20 | Wabash | 5-1 | 126 | 19 |
| 21 | Rowan | 5-1 | 120 | 24 |
| 22 | Salisbury | 5-1 | 106 | 25 |
| 23 | John Carroll | 5-1 | 81 | -- |
| 24 | Denison | 6-0 | 74 | -- |
| 25 | Delaware Valley | 5-1 | 72 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 13 St. John Fisher; No. 15 Wittenberg; No. 21 Dubuque; No. 22 Hendrix.
Others receiving votes: St. John Fisher 50; Wittenberg 48; Case Western Reserve 44; Monmouth 32; Whitworth 31; UW-La Crosse 24; Berry 13; UW-Stevens Point 8; Christopher Newport 7; Huntingdon 7; Concordia-Moorhead 5; Wesley 5; Western New England 5; Hendrix 4; Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 3; Dubuque 3; Hobart 3; Washington and Jefferson 3; Utica 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.