PITTSBURGH - Nebraska finally succeeded in winning the turnover battle. But the one time the Cornhuskers gave the ball away nearly cost them.

After 11 turnovers in their first two games, the Huskers got into trouble against Pittsburgh on Joe Dailey's late interception.

The Huskers managed to preserve a 24-17 win Saturday by batting down a pass in the end zone on the game's final play. However, their first meeting with the Panthers since 1958 shouldn't have been that close.

"We had a key turnover and it was almost like last week's game against Southern Miss," Nebraska linebacker Wali Muhammad said. "It was pretty frightening, but we battled back."

The win kept Nebraska (2-1) from dropping below .500 for the first time in 23 years.

The Huskers converted three of Pittsburgh's four turnovers into scores in the first half, but still gave the Panthers a chance to come back.

"We don't like the fact that we had a 14-point lead that dwindled in the second half," Nebraska coach Bill Callahan said.

Linebacker H.B. Blades picked off Dailey with 4:53 left, and one play later Pitt's Tyler Palko threw a 34-yard scoring pass to Greg Lee to pull the Panthers within a touchdown.

On Pitt's final drive, Palko's 31-yard completion to Darrell Strong on fourth down with 6 seconds left put the ball inside the 20. Palko scrambled to his left on the final play and threw a floater into the end zone, but cornerback Titus Brothers knocked it down.

Dailey, who entered the game with a nation-high seven interceptions, was 11-of-22 for 142 yards and a touchdown. He also scored untouched on a 17-yard run.

Marcus Furman had a 96-yard kickoff return for Pitt. He ran right through the middle of the Huskers' coverage unit.

It started with a fumble in the red zone. Then an interception over the middle. A fumbled snap under center. A second interception, this one off the receiver's chest. A fumbled handoff to the tailback. Another fumble on a center exchange.By the time it was over, Penn State (2-1) had six turnovers - all of them charged to quarterback Zack Mills - and a whole lot of reasons for the Nittany Lions and coach Joe Paterno to be worried."That's 11 in two games. I'm really concerned about it," Paterno said after Saturday's 37-13 victory over Central Florida (0-3). "It think we need to do a much better job protecting the football, be careful with the passes we make, that kind of thing. I hope most of it's correctable, but we'll have to wait and see."Actually, that was supposed to be corrected already. After a clean performance in the opener against Akron, Mills threw a personal-worst four interceptions in last week at Boston College. Those interceptions, and Paul Jefferson's fumble, contributed to the 21-7 loss.

West Virginia didn't have to wait until overtime to beat Maryland.The Mountaineers had many chances to put the game away much sooner.Rasheed Marshall's 7-yard touchdown pass to Chris Henry gave West Virginia a 19-16 overtime win on Saturday.West Virginia struggled to maintain drives, with four first-half possessions stalling in Maryland territory.Marshall overthrew several receivers on a breezy day and finished just 10-of-20 for 132 yards. West Virginia's Brad Cooper made two field goals but missed a pair of 39 yarders, getting one blocked with 5 seconds left in regulation."A good team will usually come back to get you. Fortunately for us they didn't," West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez said Sunday.Previous teams under Rodriguez might not have been as fortunate.The Mountaineers dropped close games last year to Wisconsin, Cincinnati and Miami, and there was a sense that the same thing would happen on Saturday."I thought our team reacted well to adversity," Rodriguez said. "We got behind 13-10 and again 16-13. I didn't see any panic out there."The Mountaineers failed to capitalize on four of Maryland's five turnovers. The exception came on Kay-Jay Harris' 6-yard TD run in the first quarter.

Tony Sutton rushed for 162 yards and 2 touchdowns on 38 carries, as Wooster beat Grove City 28-13 on Saturday.Sutton scored Wooster's first touchdown on a 1-yard run in the first quarter, then capped the Scots' scoring with a 9-yard run in the fourth quarter. It was the 11th straight game, dating back to last season, that Sutton has rushed for 100 or more yards.Wooster (2-0) also scored on a 10-yard pass from Justin Schafer to Tim Slovensky in the first quarter, and a 30-yard return of a fumble recovery by Jamin Suber in the second quarter.Grove City (2-1) scored on a 5-yard run by Bradford Clark in the second quarter, and a 1-yard run by Brandon McGlothlin in the third quarter.