October 6, 2009
D3soccer.com Men's Top 25, Week 5
Through games of Sunday, October 4, 2009
| # | School (1st Pl. Votes) | Record | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | Messiah (25) | 9-0-0 | 625 | 1 |
| 2 | Chris. Newport | 9-1-0 | 580 | 4 |
| 3 | Ohio Wesleyan | 10-0-2 | 576 | 2 |
| 4 | UC Santa Cruz | 9-0-1 | 540 | 5 |
| 5 | Montclair State | 10-0-1 | 508 | 6 |
| 6 | Swarthmore | 9-1-0 | 481 | 7 |
| 7 | York (Pa.) | 8-1-2 | 470 | 3 |
| 8 | Trinity (Texas) | 7-1-1 | 443 | 8 |
| 9 | Rochester | 7-0-2 | 403 | 11 |
| 10 | Loras | 8-1-1 | 392 | 12 |
| 11 | Stevens | 9-2-0 | 363 | 13 |
| 12 | Johns Hopkins | 10-2-0 | 342 | 14 |
| 13 | RPI | 8-0-1 | 262 | 18 |
| 14 | Carnegie Mellon | 10-1-0 | 247 | 20 |
| 15 | Dickinson | 8-2-0 | 227 | 10 |
| 16 | Calvin | 8-1-1 | 225 | 17 |
| 17 | Salisbury | 8-2-1 | 211 | 9 |
| 18 | Hobart | 7-1-2 | 203 | 15 |
| 19 | Williams | 6-0-1 | 197 | 25 |
| 20 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 9-2-0 | 177 | 19 |
| 21 | UW-Oshkosh | 8-1-1 | 142 | 21 |
| 22 | Principia | 9-0-0 | 103 | 22 |
| 23 | Lynchburg | 9-1-1 | 76 | — |
| 24 | Wesleyan | 5-0-2 | 55 | — |
| 25 | Amherst | 4-2-0 | 53 | 16 |
Dropped out: No. 23 Wheaton (Mass.), No. 24 Richard Stockton
Receiving Votes: St. Olaf 47, Elizabethtown 42, Richard Stockton 36, Wheaton (Mass.) 32, Muhlenberg 31, Connecticut College 14, Washington U. 7, Hope 6, Medaille 4, St. Lawrence 2, Whitworth 2, Kenyon 1
The D3soccer.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.
