Through games of Saturday, Sept. 20:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | UW-Whitewater (25) | 3-0 | 625 | 1 |
| 2 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 3-0 | 592 | 2 |
| 3 | Mount Union | 2-0 | 576 | 3 |
| 4 | Wesley | 3-0 | 538 | 4 |
| 5 | North Central (Ill.) | 2-0 | 533 | 5 |
| 6 | Linfield | 2-0 | 501 | 6 |
| 7 | St. John Fisher | 2-0 | 444 | 8 |
| 8 | John Carroll | 2-0 | 434 | 10 |
| 9 | Wartburg | 3-0 | 430 | 9 |
| 10 | St. Thomas | 2-0 | 385 | 11 |
| 11 | Hobart | 3-0 | 338 | 12 |
| 12 | Wabash | 2-0 | 329 | 13 |
| 13 | UW-Platteville | 2-1 | 323 | 7 |
| 14 | Johns Hopkins | 3-0 | 288 | 14 |
| 15 | Bethel | 1-1 | 275 | 15 |
| 16 | Pacific Lutheran | 1-0 | 227 | 17 |
| 17 | Ithaca | 2-0 | 184 | 19 |
| 18 | Wittenberg | 1-1 | 173 | 18 |
| 19 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 3-0 | 160 | 20 |
| 20 | Thomas More | 2-1 | 150 | 22 |
| 21 | Widener | 3-0 | 130 | 24 |
| 22 | Lycoming | 3-0 | 124 | 23 |
| 23 | Heidelberg | 1-1 | 75 | 16 |
| 24 | Hampden-Sydney | 2-1 | 73 | 25 |
| 25 | Concordia-Moorhead | 3-0 | 46 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 21 Illinois Wesleyan.
Others receiving votes: Washington and Jefferson 38; Chapman 25; Muhlenberg 24; Simpson 21; Guilford 21; Willamette 14; Texas Lutheran 13; Wesleyan 4; Franklin 4; Ohio Northern 3; Delaware Valley 2; Alfred 2; Rhodes 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.