USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
October 17, 2011
| Team | (First Place Votes) | Record | Points | Last Poll | |
| 1 | Michigan | (24) | 4-0-0 | 933 | 4 |
| 2 | Boston College | (15) | 3-1-0 | 927 | 1 |
| 3 | Denver | ( 4) | 1-1-0 | 829 | 3 |
| 4 | Colorado College | ( 4) | 2-0-0 | 785 | 7 |
| 5 | North Dakota | 2-1-1 | 744 | 6 | |
| 6 | Notre Dame | 2-2-0 | 716 | 2 | |
| 7 | Boston University | ( 1) | 2-1-0 | 672 | 8 |
| 8 | Minnesota | ( 1) | 4-0-0 | 609 | 14 |
| 9 | Yale | ( 1) | 0-0-0 | 600 | 10 |
| 10 | Miami | 2-2-0 | 599 | 5 | |
| 11 | Western Michigan | 2-0-2 | 510 | 12 | |
| 12 | Union | 1-0-2 | 455 | 11 | |
| 13 | Merrimack | 2-0-0 | 396 | 13 | |
| 14 | Ferris State | 4-0-0 | 282 | NR | |
| 15 | Minnesota-Duluth | 1-3-0 | 278 | 9 | |
| 16 | Colgate | 3-1-0 | 202 | NR | |
| 17 | Northern Michigan | 3-1-0 | 143 | NR | |
| 18 | Maine | 1-2-1 | 136 | 17 | |
| 19 | Lake Superior | 4-0-0 | 99 | NR | |
| 20 | Cornell | 0-0-0 | 98 | 19 | |
| Others receiving votes: Michigan Tech 97, Alaska-Anchorage 88, Providence 69, Alaska 66, Quinnipiac 42, Dartmouth 33, Nebraska-Omaha 16, Air Force 15, Massachusetts-Lowell 12, New Hampshire 12, Rochester Institute of Technology 9, Wisconsin 9, Harvard 8, Ohio State 4, Northeastern 3, Rensselaer 2. | |||||