USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men's College Hockey Poll
October 11, 2004
| Team | Points | (First Place Votes) | Last Poll | Record | Weeks in Poll | |
| 1 | Boston | College | 488 | (16) | 2 | 0-0-0 |
| 2 | University of North | Dakota | 481 | (13) | 5 | 2-0-0 |
| 3 | University of | Minnesota | 382 | 7 | 1-0-0 | |
| 4 | University of | Michigan | 378 | (3) | 1 | 1-1-0 |
| 5 | University of | Minnesota-Duluth | 376 | (2) | 4 | 1-0-1 |
| 6 | University of | Wisconsin | 314 | 8 | 0-0-0 | |
| 7 | University of New | Hampshire | 280 | 10 | 2-0-0 | |
| 8 | University of | Maine | 254 | 3 | 1-2-0 | |
| 9 | Miami | (Ohio) | University | 241 | 15 | 2-0-0 |
| 10 | Michigan State | University | 235 | 9 | 0-0-0 | |
| 11 | University of | Denver | 172 | 6 | 0-1-0 | |
| 12 | Colorado | College | 131 | 12 | 0-0-0 | |
| 13 | Dartmouth | College | 127 | 11 | 0-0-0 | |
| 14 | University of | Massachusetts-Lowell | 70 | NR | 1-0-0 | |
| 15 | Cornell | University | 55 | 14 | 0-0-0 |
Others receiving votes: Colgate University 39, University of Massachusetts 18, St. Cloud State University 16, The Ohio State University 12, University of Notre Dame 6, Harvard University 4, Niagara University 1.
