October 5, 2021
D3soccer.com Men's Top 25, Week 5
Through games of Sunday, October 3, 2021
| # | School (1st Pl. Votes) | Record | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | Washington & Lee (12) | 8-0-1 | 971 | 1 |
| 2 | Tufts (6) | 8-0-1 | 964 | 2 |
| 3 | Messiah (1) | 7-0-2 | 918 | 3 |
| 4 | Ohio Wesleyan (2) | 8-0-2 | 867 | 5 |
| 5 | Trinity (Texas) | 9-0-0 | 783 | 4 |
| 6 | New York Univ. | 7-1-1 | 735 | 9 |
| 7 | Oneonta State | 8-0-1 | 724 | 8 |
| 8 | Amherst | 8-1-0 | 697 | 13 |
| 9 | Montclair State | 10-1-1 | 653 | 10 |
| 10 | Johns Hopkins | 7-0-2 | 611 | 14 |
| 11 | Cortland State | 10-1-1 | 570 | 12 |
| 12 | Franklin & Marshall | 8-1-0 | 490 | 16 |
| 13 | Calvin | 8-2-2 | 465 | 7 |
| 14 | Washington U. | 7-1-0 | 457 | 20 |
| 15 | Emory | 6-1-2 | 402 | 23 |
| 16 | North Central (Ill.) | 12-0-1 | 382 | 17 |
| 17 | Otterbein | 7-0-2 | 322 | 19 |
| 18 | Chicago | 6-3-1 | 302 | 18 |
| 19 | Claremont-M-S | 8-1-1 | 294 | 21 |
| 20 | Rochester | 5-1-3 | 292 | 11 |
| 21 | Middlebury | 6-2-0 | 273 | 6 |
| 22 | Rowan | 8-1-0 | 262 | 22 |
| 23 | Hope | 6-2-1 | 225 | 25 |
| 24 | Connecticut Col. | 6-2-0 | 207 | — |
| 25 | RPI | 7-1-1 | 126 | — |
Dropped out: No. 15 Coast Guard, No. 24 Carthage
Receiving Votes: Redlands 111, Coast Guard 106, North Park 50, St. Olaf 40, Kenyon 38, Christopher Newport 13, Pacific Lutheran 11, St. Mary's (Md.) 11, Lebanon Valley 8, Cal Lutheran 2
The D3soccer.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of coaches, Sports Information Directors and D3soccer.com staff, and is published weekly.
