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D3football.com Top 25, 2026 preseason

Entering the 2026 season:

Rank School (No. 1 votes) W-L Points
1 North Central (Ill.) (25) 14-1 625
2 Bethel 12-1 576
3 Mount Union 11-1 565
4 Johns Hopkins 12-2 515
5 Wheaton (Ill.) 11-3 447
6 UW-Platteville 9-3 446
7 UW-River Falls 14-1 444
8 John Carroll 12-2 430
9 Wartburg 10-1 413
10 UW-La Crosse 8-3 402
11 St. John's 10-2 372
12 UW-Whitewater 8-3 370
13 DePauw 10-2 288
14 Trinity (Texas) 10-2 263
15 Hardin-Simmons 9-2 247
16 Berry 11-2 238
17 Salisbury 10-2 237
18 Christopher Newport 10-1 182
19 Hope 9-2 173
20 Susquehanna 11-3 160
21 Mary Hardin-Baylor 7-3 113
22 Coe 9-3 89
23 Cortland 8-3 56
24 Endicott 9-2 49
25 Randolph-Macon 9-2 48

Others receiving votes: Franklin & Marshall 47; UW-Oshkosh 39; Alma 34; Linfield 33; Eastern 28; Washington and Jefferson 26; Muhlenberg 24; Springfield 23; Utica 17; Wabash 14; Chapman 13; Rowan 11; Washington U. 10; Central 9; Whitworth 7; Aurora 6; Monmouth 6; Ithaca 5; Ohio Northern 5; Wesleyan 5; UW-Stout 4; Adrian 3; Hanover 3; Carnegie Mellon 2; Baldwin Wallace 1; Calvin 1; Grove City 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. The D3football.com Top 25 started in the 2003 season.

Sep. 3: All times Eastern
5:00 PM
Merchant Marine at Montclair State
6:00 PM
Millikin at Olivet
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6:00 PM
Wilkes at King's
7:00 PM
Bluffton at Ohio Wesleyan
7:00 PM
Wilmington at Wooster
7:00 PM
Westminster (Pa.) at Marietta
7:00 PM
Buffalo State at Brockport
7:00 PM
Gettysburg at Juniata
7:00 PM
Chicago at Trine
7:00 PM
Southern Virginia at UW-River Falls
8:00 PM
Belhaven at Millsaps
8:00 PM
Rockford at Beloit
Sep. 4: All times Eastern
6:00 PM
Randolph-Macon at Dickinson
6:00 PM
Mary Hardin-Baylor at Rowan
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6:00 PM
Gallaudet at Albright
6:00 PM
Shenandoah at Methodist
6:00 PM
MIT at Nichols
6:30 PM
Alvernia at Keystone
7:00 PM
St. Lawrence at Norwich
7:00 PM
Lebanon Valley at Franklin and Marshall
7:00 PM
Case Western Reserve at Rochester
7:00 PM
Alfred at Hobart
7:00 PM
Bridgewater at Stevenson
7:00 PM
Hartwick at Misericordia
7:00 PM
Western New England at Springfield
7:00 PM
Delaware Valley at Ursinus
7:00 PM
Salve Regina at Mass-Dartmouth
7:30 PM
Catholic at McDaniel
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8:00 PM
Lakeland at Carthage
10:00 PM
Howard Payne at Pacific
Sep. 5: All times Eastern
12:00 PM
Maine Maritime at Massachusetts Maritime
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12:00 PM
New England College at Plymouth State
12:00 PM
Fitchburg State at Dean
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12:00 PM
University of New England at Coast Guard
12:00 PM
Muhlenberg at Moravian
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12:00 PM
Curry at Bridgewater State
12:00 PM
Maryville (Tenn.) at Heidelberg
12:00 PM
Eastern at Endicott
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12:00 PM
Hampden-Sydney at Wabash
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12:00 PM
Washington and Jefferson at Utica
12:00 PM
Ithaca at Johns Hopkins
12:00 PM
Illinois Wesleyan at Albion
12:00 PM
Cortland at Grove City
12:00 PM
WPI at RPI
12:00 PM
Calvin at Otterbein
1:00 PM
Lycoming at TCNJ
1:00 PM
Capital at Waynesburg
1:00 PM
Hilbert at St. Vincent
1:00 PM
Wittenberg at Washington and Lee
1:00 PM
Ohio Northern at Adrian
1:00 PM
Hope at Denison
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1:00 PM
Western Connecticut at William Paterson
1:00 PM
Susquehanna at Union
1:00 PM
Morrisville State at Kean
1:00 PM
Kenyon at Kalamazoo
1:00 PM
Westminster (Mo.) at Manchester
1:00 PM
Framingham State at Husson
1:00 PM
Worcester State at SUNY-Maritime
Live stats
1:00 PM
Westfield State at Vermont State Castleton
1:00 PM
Chapman at Hardin-Simmons
1:00 PM
Alma at UW-Eau Claire
1:00 PM
Bethel at North Central (Ill.)
1:00 PM
Illinois College at Elmhurst
1:30 PM
Allegheny at Anderson
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2:00 PM
Centre at Hanover
2:00 PM
Roanoke at Virginia-Lynchburg
2:00 PM
FDU-Florham at St. John Fisher
2:00 PM
John Carroll at Carnegie Mellon
Live stats
2:00 PM
Hiram at Oberlin
2:00 PM
Linfield at UW-Oshkosh
2:00 PM
Augsburg at UW-Stevens Point
2:00 PM
Carleton at UW-Whitewater
2:00 PM
Mount Mercy at Grinnell
2:00 PM
Concordia-Moorhead at Nebraska Wesleyan
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2:00 PM
Lawrence at Luther
2:00 PM
Mount Union at Wheaton (Ill.)
2:00 PM
Carroll at St. Norbert
2:00 PM
Macalester at Martin Luther
2:00 PM
Cornell at Coe
2:00 PM
Knox at Eureka
2:00 PM
Greenville at Lake Forest
2:00 PM
UW-La Crosse at St. John's
2:00 PM
Aurora at UW-Platteville
2:00 PM
Benedictine at Buena Vista
2:00 PM
Concordia-Chicago at Minnesota-Morris
2:00 PM
Hamline at Crown
2:00 PM
Central at Gustavus Adolphus
2:00 PM
Bethany at Sewanee
2:00 PM
Concordia (Wis.) at Ripon
2:00 PM
Wisconsin Lutheran at St. Scholastica
3:00 PM
Widener at Geneva
3:00 PM
Willamette at Pomona-Pitzer
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4:00 PM
Thiel at Alfred State
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4:00 PM
Northwestern (Minn.) at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
4:00 PM
Cal Lutheran at Pacific Lutheran
4:00 PM
Lewis and Clark at Puget Sound
5:00 PM
East Texas Baptist at Lyon
6:00 PM
N.C. Wesleyan at Averett
6:00 PM
North Park at Franklin
6:00 PM
Guilford at Greensboro
6:00 PM
St. Olaf at Loras
7:00 PM
DePauw at Rose-Hulman
7:00 PM
Muskingum at Mount St. Joseph
7:00 PM
Apprentice at Christopher Newport
7:00 PM
Berry at Huntingdon
7:00 PM
Austin at Schreiner
7:00 PM
Simpson at Augustana
7:00 PM
McMurry at Southwestern
7:00 PM
UW-Stout at Dubuque
7:30 PM
Point at LaGrange
8:00 PM
Texas Lutheran at Trinity (Texas)
8:00 PM
Washington U. at Rhodes
8:00 PM
Wartburg at Monmouth
8:00 PM
Azusa Pacific at La Verne
8:00 PM
Simpson (Calif.) at Whittier
10:05 PM
Redlands at George Fox
Sep. 3: All times Eastern
7:00 PM
Southern Virginia at UW-River Falls
Sep. 4: All times Eastern
6:00 PM
Randolph-Macon at Dickinson
6:00 PM
Mary Hardin-Baylor at Rowan
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Sep. 5: All times Eastern
12:00 PM
Ithaca at Johns Hopkins
12:00 PM
Cortland at Grove City
12:00 PM
Eastern at Endicott
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1:00 PM
Susquehanna at Union
1:00 PM
Hope at Denison
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1:00 PM
Bethel at North Central (Ill.)
1:00 PM
Chapman at Hardin-Simmons
2:00 PM
John Carroll at Carnegie Mellon
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2:00 PM
Mount Union at Wheaton (Ill.)
2:00 PM
Cornell at Coe
2:00 PM
Carleton at UW-Whitewater
2:00 PM
UW-La Crosse at St. John's
2:00 PM
Aurora at UW-Platteville
7:00 PM
DePauw at Rose-Hulman
7:00 PM
Apprentice at Christopher Newport
7:00 PM
Berry at Huntingdon
8:00 PM
Texas Lutheran at Trinity (Texas)
8:00 PM
Wartburg at Monmouth