If the College Football Playoff started with 24 teams when it began in 2014, 80 different schools would have qualified over the last 12 years, Big Ten deputy commissioner Kerry Kenny told reporters Tuesday.We checked his work: He’s right.There’s momentum for the Playoff to expand to 24 teams, with all power conferences but the SEC having publicly endorsed it. If the sport’s leadership agrees on 24, the field will have expanded 500 percent from 2023 to 2027.But what does that mean? What does a new college football where 24 teams compete for a national title look like?We crunched the numbers on what a 24-team field — made with the top 23 teams and the highest Group of 5 program, as one of the proposals outlines — would look like.If college football’s biggest stage continues to grow, CFP success will further define how that season is remembered. But this is good news if you’re a fan of USC or Utah or NC State. If you’re a fan of the blue bloods, perhaps less so.Let’s break it down.Making the Playoff will be old news for someOhio State and Alabama are the only programs that would have made the field every single season. Clemson would have made 11 in a row until 2025.Georgia would have made the field in nine of Kirby Smart’s 10 seasons. Notre Dame would have made nine consecutive brackets.For programs that start at the top of the polls and have elite talent, going 9-3 would basically be a guaranteed ticket to the field. Since 2002, Ohio State has lost more than three games in a season twice. And in one of those seasons — an 8-4 campaign in 2004 — it finished 20th in the AP poll and may have made the field anyway.For the big boys at the top, this sounds a lot like college basketball. Seeding — and winning multiple games — will matter more than getting in.