🏆 The Week 5 @D3FBHuddle #d3fb Top 40 is LIVE. @football_ncc still owns No. 1. Everything behind them is a fight. Full results + every poll all season: d3fbhuddle.com/results — every score and box score at scores.d3fbhuddle.com. Records reflect games through Oct. 3. 🥈 WHO'S NO. 2? UW-River Falls' 24-16 loss at UW-Whitewater opened the door, and four unbeaten teams charged through it. Just 23 points separate No. 2 from No. 5: 2. @SJUFootball — 941 pts (+3) 3. @WheatonFB — 927 pts 4. @WarhawkFootball — 920 pts (+4) 5. @UWPlattFootball — 918 pts St. John's claimed the spot by crushing No. 7 Bethel 42-16 — the most convincing statement any contender made all week. UW-Whitewater earned its jump by handing the defending champs their first loss. UW-Platteville stayed perfect with a 31-27 escape at UW-Stout, a win that cost the Pioneers one spot but not a game. St. John's and Wheaton each drew a first-place vote; North Central kept the other 23. 📈 THE RISERS ▪️ @BWFootball_ (22, +11): The week's biggest jump after a 41-26 win at Heidelberg keeps them 4-0. ▪️ @washufootball (9, +9): Into the top 10 at 5-0 after beating John Carroll 35-25. ▪️ @CalvinKnightsFB (33, +5) and @HanoverFTBL (35, +5): Calvin stays perfect at 5-0; Hanover edged Mount St. Joseph 40-38. ▪️ @CortlandFB (12, +4) and @LFC_FOOTBALL (31, +4): Both 5-0. ▪️ @TUFootballTX (7, +2) beat Berry 23-6, and @HSUCowboys (8, +2) rolled 58-0. ▪️ Also climbing: @CruFootball (20, +3), @MountUnionFB (26, +2), @_SCFootball (27, +2), @LinfieldFB (29, +2), @IthacaBomberFB (30, +2), @EndicottFB (10, +1), @HopeCollegeFB (11, +1), @cnu_football (14, +1), and Wartburg (16, +1). 📉 THE FALLS ▪️ UW-River Falls (6, -4), John Carroll (13, -7), and Bethel (17, -10) all took Week 5 losses to ranked teams. ▪️ Wabash (36, -10) fell 24-23 at Denison, and Heidelberg (32, -6) dropped after losing to Baldwin Wallace. 🆕 WELCOME IN @UWECFootball (37) arrives at 4-0, @Chapman_Fb and @Rowan_Football tie at 38, and @DCRedDevilFB (40) enters after beating Johns Hopkins 35-21. Johns Hopkins — No. 4 in the preseason — drops out, along with Muhlenberg, LaGrange, and UW-Stout. 👀 WHAT WE'RE WATCHING ▪️ 19 ranked teams are undefeated vs. D3, including 11 of the top 12. Eighteen have spotless records; Dickinson's lone loss came against a non-D3 opponent. ▪️ Across all of D3, 35 teams remain undefeated vs. D3 opponents. At this point in 2025, only 24 were. Five weeks in, No. 1 is settled. No. 2 is anyone's guess. 🏈