USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Men's College Hockey Poll
October 21, 2002
| Team | Points | (First Place Votes) | Last Poll | Record | Weeks in Poll | |
| 1. | University of New | Hampshire | 248 | (13) | 3 | 2-0-1 |
| 2. | University of | Minnesota | 224 | (2) | 1 | 1-1-1 |
| 3. | University of | Denver | 208 | (1) | 2 | 3-1-0 |
| 4. | Boston | College | 203 | (1) | 8 | 3-0-0 |
| 5. | University of | Michigan | 171 | 9 | 3-1-0 | |
| 6. | Boston | University | 150 | 4 | 1-0-2 | |
| 7. | University of North | Dakota | 144 | 7 | 2-0-0 | |
| 8. | Colorado | College | 135 | 11 | 3-1-0 | |
| 9. | Cornell | University | 128 | 6 | 0-0-0 | |
| 10. | University of | Maine | 123 | 5 | 2-1-0 | |
| 11. | Providence | College | 77 | 13 | 4-0-0 | |
| 12. | Harvard | University | 49 | 12 | 0-0-0 | |
| 13 | Michigan State | University | 47 | 10 | 2-2-0 | |
| 14 | Northern Michigan | University | 31 | 14 | 2-2-1 | |
| 15 | University of Notre | Dame | 27 | NR | 3-0-1 |
Others receiving votes: St. Cloud State University 25, University of Massachusetts-Lowell 24, Ferris State University 14, The Ohio State University 7, University of Wisconsin 4, Miami University (Ohio) 1.
