 Those two seasons comprised most of an 18-game winning streak that stretched from 1939 to 1942.After some mediocre seasons throughout the remainder of the 1940s and 1950s, the Gophers rose back to prominence in 1960 with their seventh national championship (because polling ended after the regular season, the Gophers were crowned AP and UPI national champions despite losing the Rose Bowl to Washington).That national championship followed a 1–8 record in 1958 and 2–7 record in 1959.