Nov 07, 2021
Through games of Nov. 6, 2021:
| Rank | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Points | Prev. |
| 1 | North Central (Ill.) (18) | 9-0 | 616 | 1 |
| 2 | Mary Hardin-Baylor (7) | 9-0 | 597 | 2 |
| 3 | UW-Whitewater | 9-0 | 579 | 3 |
| 4 | Mount Union | 9-0 | 549 | 4 |
| 5 | St. John's | 9-0 | 503 | 5 |
| 6 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 8-1 | 502 | 6 |
| 7 | Linfield | 8-0 | 473 | 7 |
| 8 | Hardin-Simmons | 8-1 | 420 | 8 |
| 9 | Central | 9-0 | 412 | 9 |
| 10 | Delaware Valley | 9-0 | 401 | 10 |
| 11 | Salisbury | 7-1 | 355 | 11 |
| 12 | UW-La Crosse | 7-2 | 352 | 12 |
| 13 | Bethel | 8-1 | 327 | 14 |
| 14 | Cortland | 9-0 | 313 | 15 |
| 15 | Muhlenberg | 8-1 | 268 | 16 |
| 16 | Trinity (Texas) | 8-0 | 232 | 18 |
| 17 | Johns Hopkins | 8-1 | 219 | 17 |
| 18 | Ithaca | 8-1 | 172 | 24 |
| 19 | UW-Oshkosh | 6-2 | 153 | 20 |
| 20 | Baldwin Wallace | 8-1 | 145 | 21 |
| 21 | RPI | 8-1 | 124 | 23 |
| 22 | Birmingham-Southern | 8-1 | 113 | 19 |
| 23 | Union | 8-1 | 108 | 13 |
| 24 | Randolph-Macon | 8-1 | 40 | -- |
| 25 | DePauw | 8-1 | 29 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 22 Washington & Jefferson; No. 25 Susquehanna.
Others receiving votes: Redlands 21; Aurora 19; UW-River Falls 17; Carnegie Mellon 13; Albion 12; John Carroll 10; Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 8; Lake Forest 8; Whitworth 5; Williams 3; Gustavus Adolphus 2; Hobart 2; Westminster (Pa.) 2; Heidelberg 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.