October 2, 2012
D3soccer.com Men's Top 25, Week 5
Through games of Sunday, September 30, 2012
| # | School (1st Pl. Votes) | Record | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | Trinity (Texas) (18) | 10-0-1 | 613 | 1 |
| 2 | Messiah (2) | 9-0-1 | 597 | 2 |
| 3 | Amherst (4) | 7-0-0 | 553 | 3 |
| 4 | St. Lawrence | 9-1-0 | 514 | 4 |
| 5 | Carnegie Mellon | 8-1-0 | 499 | 6 |
| 6 | Loras | 11-1-1 | 489 | 7 |
| 7 | New York Univ. (1) | 9-0-0 | 466 | 8 |
| 8 | Brandeis | 9-0-1 | 442 | 5 |
| 9 | Montclair State | 10-1-0 | 438 | 9 |
| 10 | Ohio Northern | 10-2-0 | 324 | 13 |
| 11 | Whitworth | 8-0-2 | 308 | 12 |
| 12 | York (Pa.) | 8-2-1 | 306 | 11 |
| 13 | Susquehanna | 9-1-0 | 290 | 14 |
| 14 | Rutgers-Camden | 8-2-0 | 269 | 10 |
| 15 | Ohio Wesleyan | 6-1-3 | 199 | 15 |
| 16 | Williams | 6-0-1 | 188 | 18 |
| 17 | Olivet | 10-0-1 | 164 | 24 |
| 18 | Swarthmore | 7-1-1 | 164 | 19 |
| 19 | Dominican | 7-1-1 | 146 | 21 |
| 20 | Hiram | 9-0-1 | 146 | — |
| 21 | Plattsburgh State | 11-1-0 | 143 | 17 |
| 22 | UW-Platteville | 10-1-1 | 120 | 25 |
| 23 | Salisbury | 7-2-1 | 119 | 16 |
| 24 | Eastern Connecticut | 9-0-0 | 75 | — |
| 25 | Babson | 8-2-1 | 66 | — |
Dropped out: No. 20 Franklin and Marshall, No. 22 Wheaton (Ill.), No. 23 Chicago
Receiving Votes: Carleton 64, Stevens 62, Frostburg State 45, Medaille 41, Christopher Newport 40, DePauw 30, Dickinson 30, Franklin and Marshall 19, Allegheny 17, Illinois Wesleyan 17, Scranton 17, Wheaton (Ill.) 17, Oberlin 14, Lasell 10, Carthage 8, Gustavus Adolphus 8, Mississippi College 7, North Carolina Wesleyan 7, Bowdoin 6, Chicago 5, MIT 5, Albertus Magnus 4, Puget Sound 4, Transylvania 3, Calvin 2, Centre 2, Colorado College 1, Penn State-Behrend 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.
