LANDOVER, Md. - In a game full of turnovers and mistakes, Maurice Fleming's interception on the WVU two-yard line with a minute left preserved West Virginia's 35-32 victory over hard-luck BYU here at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.

The Mountaineers, now 3-0 for the fourth time under coach Dana Holgorsen, needed all four turnovers BYU committed today to avoid blowing a 16-point fourth-quarter lead.

That came when West Virginia quarterback Skyler Howard hit a wide-open Daikiel Shorts Jr. in the back of the end zone on a beautifully executed misdirection play with 11:27 left in the fourth quarter.

Mike Molina's point after touchdown made it 35-19, West Virginia.

But the Cougars answered with a pair of rapid-fire touchdowns, both coming in a span of just 2:01. The first happened when Jamaal Williams ran in from the three. The Williams TD was set up by Taysom Hill's 19-yard run, a 15-yard pass interference penalty called on Rasul Douglas, and then a Hill-to-Colby Pearson pass that moved the ball to the three.

Concern on the West Virginia sideline turned into outright worry when the Mountaineer offense couldn't move the sticks, punting the football back to BYU at its 21 where the Cougars marched 79 yards in nine plays.

Again, Hill found success in the passing game, connecting for 16 yards to Pearson to the WVU 49, hitting Nick Kurtz down the near sideline for 18 yards to the Mountaineer 19 and then one play later, Hill hooking up with Morni Laulu-Oututau over the middle for an 18-yard scoring toss - Hill's second of the game. His first came on BYU's opening possession when he hit Mitchell Juergens for a 25-yard score.

After Laulu-Oututau's touchdown, the Cougar offense had two more cracks at the end zone.

The first came with less than five minutes remaining when BYU forced a West Virginia punt and took over at its own 14 with 4:23 to go. Hill tried a pass deep down the middle of the field that 5-foot-10-inch Juergens was unable to reach and Jeremy Tyler intercepted the ball at the Cougar 39.

A pass interference penalty called on Chris Wilcox gave West Virginia a first down at the BYU 23, and then Justin Crawford weaved his way 19 yards to the Cougar four to give the Mountaineers a first and goal with 2:50 remaining.

But there was a miscommunication between center Tyler Orlosky and quarterback Skyler Howard while the Mountaineers were attempting to "freeze" another BYU blitz attempt to try and get into another play. Orlosky snapped the football when Howard wasn't looking, the ball hit off his knee and linebacker Francis Bernard recovered the ball at the six.

Immediately, BYU marched right down the field, Hill hooking up with Nick Kurtz down the far sideline for 29 yards, and then three plays later, hitting Kurtz again for 23 yards to the WVU 36 with the game clocking winding down to a minute and BYU needing only a field goal to tie it.

Following a Hill eight-yard rush to the WVU 28 and BYU's second time out, Hill tried a pass to freshman Aliva Hill toward the corner of the end zone that he was not able to secure, the ball bouncing up in the air and senior corner Maurice Fleming hauling it in for West Virginia at the two-yard line.

The Mountaineers were able to run out the clock from there.

Three of West Virginia's four offensive drives for touchdowns covered distances of 99, 88 and 86 yards, while the fourth came from its own 41-yard line.

Rushel Shell III scored twice on runs of six and two yards in the first half, Howard got in from the five late in the third quarter and then Howard found Shorts for the short TD pass early in the fourth quarter.

West Virginia's other score came as a result of Rasul Douglas stepping in front of a Hill pass at the BYU 45 and racing untouched for a touchdown with just 2:23 remaining in the first half. Douglas' score put West Virginia ahead 21-10, but poor kickoff coverage that plagued the Mountaineers all day enabled the Cougars to start from the 50 with 2:14 still showing on the clock.

Jamaal Williams, who rushed for 169 yards on 24 carries, got 12 right off the bat to the Mountaineer 38. A short Hill run and then another when he fumbled on the WVU 17 was recovered at the 13 by Pearson to give the Cougars a first down with 32 seconds left in the half.

BYU called its final timeout with 25 seconds remaining. Following an incomplete pass, Mitch Juergens caught a Hill pass near the Cougar sideline and instead of going out of bounds, he turned toward the middle of the field where Nana Kyeremeh and Douglas tackled him at the WVU seven.

BYU was slow getting back to the line of scrimmage with the clock winding down to zero and when Hill spiked the football there was no time remaining on the clock. The official on the field ruled the half was over and as the West Virginia team ran toward the locker room, the players were stopped as the replay official upstairs buzzed downstairs to review the play.

It was determined that there was one second left on the clock when Hill spiked the ball and that enabled Rhett Almond to kick a 25-yard field goal as time expired, pulling BYU to within eight, 21-13.

Almond also kicked a field on BYU's second possession of the game from 22 yards.

Howard, who began the game by hitting his first 10 passes, finished the game completing 30-of-41 for 332 yards and a touchdown.

Shelton Gibson caught four of those for 144 yards, including two pretty plays down the near sideline covering 35 yards in the first quarter and then 51 yards to set up Howard's third-quarter run.

Justin Crawford was West Virginia's top rusher with 86 yards on only nine attempts, while the junior also caught three passes coming out of the backfield for 36 yards.

Ten different Mountaineer players caught passes today.

Hill finished the game completing 23-of-35 for 241 yards and two touchdowns with three interceptions.

The Cougars drop to 1-3 with today's loss while the Mountaineers remain one of two Big 12 teams unbeaten with a key conference game looming against Kansas State at Milan Puskar Stadium next week.

K-State is one of just two teams West Virginia has not defeated since joining the Big 12 Conference in 2012. The other is Oklahoma. Kickoff is set for 3:30.