USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
October 08, 2012
| Team | (First Place Votes) | Record | Points | Last Poll | |
| 1 | Boston College | (37) | 0- 0-0 | 978 | 1 |
| 2 | Minnesota | (12) | 0- 0-0 | 948 | 2 |
| 3 | Michigan | ( 1) | 0- 0-0 | 871 | 3 |
| 4 | North Dakota | 0- 0-0 | 837 | 4 | |
| 5 | Cornell | 0- 0-0 | 704 | 6 | |
| 6 | Massachusetts-Lowell | 0- 0-0 | 680 | 7 | |
| 7 | Denver | 0- 0-0 | 624 | 8 | |
| 8 | Miami | 0- 0-0 | 588 | 9 | |
| 9 | Western Michigan | 0- 0-0 | 584 | 10 | |
| 10 | Union | 0- 1-0 | 581 | 5 | |
| 11 | Ferris State | 0- 0-0 | 466 | 11 | |
| 12 | Boston University | 0- 0-0 | 429 | 13 | |
| 13 | Minnesota-Duluth | 0- 0-0 | 404 | 12 | |
| 14 | Notre Dame | 0- 0-0 | 400 | 14 | |
| 15 | Wisconsin | 0- 0-0 | 242 | 18 | |
| 16 | Michigan State | 0- 0-0 | 222 | 16 | |
| 17 | Harvard | 0- 0-0 | 179 | 17 | |
| 18 | Quinnipiac | 1- 0-0 | 126 | NR | |
| 19 | Merrimack | 1- 0-0 | 120 | NR | |
| 20 | Maine | 0- 1-0 | 102 | 15 | |
| Others receiving votes: Colorado College 101, Air Force 93, New Hampshire 64, St. Cloud State 62, Ohio State 20, Nebraska-Omaha 13, Lake Superior 8, Northern Michigan 8, Providence 8, Niagara 7, Rochester Institute of Technology 7, Northeastern 6, Rensselaer 5, Michigan Tech 4, Yale 4, Minnesota State 3, Robert Morris 2. | |||||

