The Cabrillo football team scored some big breakthroughs under second-year coach Dave Fleming in 2024.

The Conquistadores went 7-4 and won more games that season than they had the previous seven combined.

Though Cabrillo went out in the first round of the CIF Central Section Division 4 playoffs, the Conqs qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 2011, when Lompoc Valley rival Lompoc beat the Conquistadores 21-0 in the CIF Southern Section Northwest Division championship game. Cabrillo joined the CIF Central Section just before the start of the 2022 school year.

Cabrillo won the annual Lompoc Valley Big Game against Lompoc for the first time since 2008. And the Conquistadores did so convincingly, 48-25.

The Conquistadores lost 29-26 at Selma in their season opener then went o

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