1. Keiser (Fla.)

Notes: The Seahawks take over the top spot after an impressive fall, up a pair from No. 3 as a unanimous No. 1, Oct. 17. The season started as Matus Cedzo won the Seahawk Invitational, leading Keiser to its eighth-straight top-five team performance, a streak that extended to 10 with wins at the Invite at Innisbrook and the Jupiter Collegiate Invitational. Keiser closes the fall Oct. 27-28, at the Citrus Intercollegiate, in Davenport, Fla. 

2. Reinhardt (Ga.)

Notes: The Eagles made a historic ascent from the preseason Top 25 to the first fall regular-season rating, starting the year at No. 20 to check in at No. 2 Oct. 17. The Eagles won their season opener at home in August, before winning the Coastal Georgia Fall Invite, and claiming third in the Invite at Innisbrook. The fall continues Oct. 18-19, for Reinhardt, at the Bojangles Invite, hosted by Tennessee Wesleyan. 

3. Coastal Georgia

Notes: Coastal was seventh in the Invite at Innisbrook, three weeks after a third-place finish in the 15th-annual Coastal Georgia Fall Invitational. Antonio Juarbe tied for first in the event for the Mariners at 6-under par, falling in a playoff hole to Cobey Riddle from Blue Mountain Christian (Miss.). Two more fall events – at SCAD Savannah and Tennessee Wesleyan – close the fall for the Mariners in October.  

4. Blue Mountain Christian (Miss.)

Notes: In another historic jump to No. 4, Blue Mountain Christian started the fall unranked, but strong finishes at the Coastal Georgia Fall Invite and the Invite at Innisbrook have the Toppers in the first five. Cobey Riddle won at Coastal and finished in the top 15 at Innisbrook. The Toppers close the fall Oct. 18-19 at Tennessee Wesleyan. 

5. Marian (Ind.)

Notes: The Knights are up nine spots to No. 5, winning their first three fall events in Indiana, Iowa, and Illinois, and Marian closed the fall with an eighth-place finish in the Music City Collegiate, hosted by Cumberland (Tenn.). 

6. Ave Maria (Fla.)

Notes: Like BMCU, Ave Maria climbs from unranked to the top 10 after a strong fall start, finishing second at the Seahawk and at Innisbrook, where Ty Kaufman won his first tournament of the season and the second in his career. The Gyrenes also have a fourth-place finish at The Battle at Black Diamond, and a seventh-place finish in a loaded field at the Jupiter Collegiate Invitational. They’ll close the fall Oct. 27-28, in the Nancy Nichols Match Play, hosted by Webber International (Fla.). 

7. Oklahoma City

Notes: The Stars posted three fall wins, claiming their own UC Ferguson Classic, the Battle in the Desert, hosted by Southwest (N.M.), and the Battle at Winter Creek, hosted by USAO, where Lorenzo Santinelli opened in 67, finishing third in the tournament with six birdies in the final round and 14 in the tournament. 

8. MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.)

Notes: MNU has four of its five scheduled fall tournaments under its belt, winning the Mid-South Invite at Sand Creek Station, in Newton, Kan., with second-place finishes at the Northwest Iowa Invitational and the UC Ferguson Classic, behind host OCU. The Pioneers also hosted at Terradyne Golf Club in Wichita, finishing third behind Missouri Valley and Newman, and they’ll close the fall portion of the 2025-26 slate Oct. 20-21, at the Heart of America Preview in Smithville, Mo.  

9. Friends (Kan.)

Notes: The Falcons picked up their first win of the fall Oct. 7 at the Evangel Fall Invitational in Joplin after beginning the year with back-to-back second-place finishes at the Mid-South, in Newton, Kan., and the Crestview Fall Invitational in Wichita. Friends will host the Falcon Cup Oct. 13-14, at Auburn Hills in Wichita, before closing the fall Oct. 20-21 at the KCAC Match Play in Dodge City, Kan. 

10. Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)

Notes: The defending national champions have played three events in the fall, finishing third at the UPike Invitational, second at the Music City Collegiate, and winning the Gibson Bay Invitational in Richmond, Ky., co-hosting with Cumberlands (Ky.). The fall concludes, for Lindsey Wilson, Oct. 26-28 at the Mid-South Conference Preview at Bowling Green Country Club, in Bowling Green, Ky.