D3soccer.com Men's Top 25, Week 3
Through games of Saturday, September 15, 2012
| # | School (1st Pl. Votes) | Record | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | St. Lawrence (16) | 6-0-0 | 598 | 2 |
| 2 | Trinity (Texas) (6) | 6-0-1 | 568 | 1 |
| 3 | Loras (2) | 7-0-1 | 528 | 3 |
| 4 | Messiah (1) | 5-0-1 | 524 | 5 |
| 5 | Montclair State | 6-0-0 | 481 | 10 |
| 6 | Amherst | 3-0-0 | 449 | 4 |
| 7 | Brandeis | 19-1-4 | 395 | 12 |
| 8 | Ohio Northern | 7-1-0 | 391 | 7 |
| 9 | Carnegie Mellon | 5-1-0 | 378 | 15 |
| 10 | New York Univ. | 6-0-0 | 358 | 17 |
| 11 | Whitworth | 5-0-1 | 303 | 18 |
| 12 | Rutgers-Camden | 5-1-0 | 291 | 8 |
| 13 | Franklin & Marshall | 5-1-0 | 288 | 6 |
| 14 | Swarthmore | 5-0-0 | 277 | — |
| 15 | York (Pa.) | 5-1-1 | 234 | 9 |
| 16 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 5-1-0 | 219 | 22 |
| 17 | Susquehanna | 6-1-0 | 188 | 14 |
| 18 | Washington U. | 4-0-1 | 186 | 25 |
| 19 | DePauw | 5-0-2 | 142 | 16 |
| 20 | Babson | 5-1-1 | 127 | 11 |
| 21 | Ohio Wesleyan | 4-1-1 | 126 | 21 |
| 22 | Williams | 4-0-0 | 103 | — |
| 23 | Tufts | 3-0-0 | 100 | — |
| 24 | Plattsburgh State | 7-0-0 | 97 | — |
| 25 | Salisbury | 5-1-1 | 90 | 19 |
Dropped out: No. 13 Rochester, No. 20 UW-Whitewater, No. 23 Hope, No. 24 Christopher Newport
Receiving Votes: Rochester 88, Dickinson 86, Carthage 49, UW-Whitewater 40, Christopher Newport 39, Baldwin-Wallace 34, Illinois Wesleyan 32, Olivet 31, Nazareth 27, Wesleyan 27, Hiram 26, Eastern Connecticut 25, Stevens 20, Frostburg State 19, Gustavus Adolphus 18, Medaille 15, Dominican 14, Bowdoin 13, Hobart 13, Puget Sound 11, Chicago 10, Rutgers-Newark 8, UW-Platteville 8, UC Santa Cruz 7, Hope 5, Carleton 4, Redlands 4, Augsburg 3, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 3, Lebanon Valley 2, Luther 2, Bridgewater (Va.) 1, Oglethorpe 1
The D3soccer.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly.
