East Texas Baptist remained No. 1 in the NFCA Division III Top 25 Coaches Poll this week. The Tigers received all eight first-place votes. ETBU is 8-0 on the season and haven’t been beaten since 2019. They sat 15-0 when the season ended prematurely in 2020.
| Rank | Team | 2021 Record | Points | Previous |
| 1 | East Texas Baptist (8) | 8-0 | 200 | 1 |
| 2 | Texas Lutheran | 4-2 | 192 | 2 |
| 3 | Virginia Wesleyan | 10-1 | 184 | 4 |
| 4 | Christopher Newport | 9-3 | 176 | 3 |
| 5 | Salisbury | 2-4 | 168 | 5 |
| 6 | Linfield | 7-1 | 160 | 6 |
| 7 | DePauw | 8-0 | 152 | 9 |
| 8 | Kean | 0-0 | 144 | 8 |
| 9 | Berry | 8-1 | 136 | 10 |
| 10 | St. John Fisher | 0-0 | 128 | 11 |
| 11 | Transylvania | 7-0 | 120 | 12 |
| 12 | Birmingham-Southern | 15-2 | 106 | 18 |
| 13 | St. Olaf | 0-0 | 103 | 14 |
| 14 | Milwaukee School of Engineering | 0-0 | 95 | 15 |
| 15 | Eastern Connecticut State | 0-0 | 86 | 16 |
| 16 | Carthage | 0-0 | 77 | 17 |
| 17 | Moravian | 0-0 | 70 | 19 |
| 18 | Geneseo | 0-0 | 54 | 20 |
| 19 | St. Catherine | 2-0 | 50 | NR |
| T20 | Trine | 0-0 | 41 | 22 |
| Wartburg | 7-1 | 41 | NR | |
| 22 | Randolph-Macon | 0-0 | 28 | 23 |
| 23 | Tufts | 0-0 | 18 | 24 |
| 24 | Carroll (Wis.) | 2-0 | 17 | NR |
| 25 | Belhaven | 11-3 | 14 | NR |
Others receiving votes: Central (Iowa) 13, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 11, Wisconsin-La Crosse 9, Illinois Wesleyan 6, Rowan 1.
Dropped out: Averett, Ferrum, Mary Hardin-Baylor, Manhattanville, Maryville (Tenn.), Mount Union, Williams and Wisconsin-Oshkosh.