2025 Men’s Varsity Top 20 (Week 1/September 3) |
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| Rank | Team | Preseason Poll | Points |
| 1 | University of California-Los Angeles |
1 | 100 |
| 2 |
University of Southern California |
2 | 95 |
| 3 | University of California | 3 (T) | 88 |
| 4 (T) | Fordham University | 3 (T) | 83 |
| 4 (T) | Stanford University | 3 (T) | 83 |
| 6 |
San Jose State University | 10 (T) | 74 |
| 7 (T) | University of California-Irvine | 7 (T) | 66 |
| 7 (T) | Long Beach State University | 6 | 66 |
| 9 |
Princeton University | 10 (T) | 55 |
| 10 (T) | University of the Pacific | 9 | 53 |
| 10 (T) | University of California-Davis | 14 | 53 |
| 12 |
Pepperdine University | 7 (T) | 51 |
| 13 |
University of California-San Diego | 12 | 44 |
| 14 |
California Baptist University | 13 | 33 |
| 15 |
Loyola Marymount University | 16 | 27 |
| 16 (T) | Brown University |
17 | 18 |
| 16 (T) | Harvard University |
18 (T) | 18 |
| 18 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 15 | 14 |
| 19 (T) | George Washington University |
NR | 11 |
| 19 (T) | United States Naval Academy | 20 | 11 |
| RV | Santa Clara University | 18 (T) | 7 |
| RV | United States Air Force Academy |
RV | 4 |
| RV | Bucknell University | NR | 1 |
2025 Men’s Varsity Division III Top 10 (Week 1/September 3) |
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| Rank | Team | Preseason Poll | Points |
| 1 |
Pomona-Pitzer Colleges | 2 (T) | 96 |
| 2 | University of Redlands | 1 | 95 |
| 3 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges | 4 | 89 |
| 4 | Chapman University | 2 (T) | 84 |
| 5 | Whittier College | 5 (T) | 77 |
| 6 | California Lutheran University | 5 (T) | 72 |
| 7 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 7 | 71 |
| 8 | Augustana College |
8 | 59 |
| 9 |
Johns Hopkins University | 10 | 55 |
| 10 |
University of La Verne | 9 | 45 |
| RV |
Occidental College | RV | 35 |
2025 Men’s Varsity Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference Top 5 (Week 1/September 3) |
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| Rank | Team | Preseason Poll | Points |
| 1 | Fordham University |
1 |
100 |
| 2 |
George Washington University | 3 | 93 |
| 3 | United States Naval Academy | 2 | 89 |
| 4 |
Bucknell University | 4 | 70 |
| 5 | Wagner College | 5 | 66 |
| RV | Mount St. Mary’s University |
RV | 32 |
2025 Men’s Varsity Northeast Water Polo Conference Top 5 (Week 1/September 3) |
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| Rank | Team | Preseason Poll | Points |
| 1 | Princeton University | 1 | 100 |
| 2 |
Brown University |
2 |
93 |
| 3 | Harvard University |
3 | 92 |
| 4 | Iona University |
4 |
83 |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
5 | 82 |

