Fernando Mendoza's new favorite target at Indiana is even better than you thought

The Indiana Hoosiers feel inevitable at this point. In the history of major college football, have we ever seen anything quite like this? For most of its history, the Hoosiers were happy as clams just to get to a bowl game. Two years into the Curt Cignetti era, and IU football is ready to beat the snot out of everyone they face. It also helps they have the Heisman Trophy frontrunner in Fernando Mendoza.

While Cignetti and Mendoza have been obvious focal points in IU becoming this kind of a buzz saw, we also need to pay attention to a new interesting wrinkle developing in their receiving corps. No, it is not Biletnikoff hopefuls Omar Cooper Jr. or Elijah Sarratt. The other name joining them would be sophomore wide receiver Charlie Becker, who FanSided's Josh Yourish touched on for Saturday Blitz.

This aerial strike from Mendoza to Becker during the Wisconsin game got everyone out of their seats!

On the season, Becker has 19 catches in 11 games for 383 yards and two touchdowns. While not factoring much into the offense during the better part of his second year with the team, Becker certainly made headway vs. Penn State two weeks ago with seven catches for 118 yards. Then vs. Wisconsin, he backed up that breakout showing with five catches for 108 yards and a touchdown.

If Becker can rise to the occasion of Cooper and Sarratt, Indiana will have best passing attack in FBS.

Fernando Mendoza has added Charlie Becker to Indiana's elite WR corps

Of the many reasons to believe Indiana can make a deep run in the playoff, this one thing always seems to snag in the back of one's mind: Do the Hoosiers have enough depth to run the College Football Playoff gauntlet? While winning four playoff games in a row may be too tough of a road to hoe, maybe Indiana can do it if the Hoosiers only have to play three playoff games following a bye?

Assuming IU gets a top-four seed and a first-round bye into the quarterfinals, probably to either the Rose or Orange Bowls in most estimations, there is a non-zero chance they could in fact run this gauntlet. This is because of the emergence of yet another weapon in their receiving corps. Could a good defense neutralize either Cooper or Sarratt? Yes. Could a great one stop both of them? Sure...

However, it might take an all-time defense to stifle Becker, Cooper and Sarratt for a full four quarters in a playoff setting. Truth be told, Indiana may come up against a team with the talent in the back-end to stop them, whether that be someone like Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State or Texas A&M. That being said, having a third weapon in the receiving corps could get Indiana to the title bout this postseason.

Doing this against Penn State and Wisconsin is one thing, but doing it against Ohio State is another.