If the report out of Baton Rouge is true that LSU offered to play the game on Sat/Sun/Mon in either Baton Rouge or Gainesville, and Florida either sat on their hands or explicitly turned it down, Florida trying to weasel their way out of playing this game is the only logical explanation for this.
The easy answer to this is for Greg Sankey to throw his weight around and force LSU and Florida to cut checks to their November 19 cupcakes, cancel those games (Presby and South Alabama won't mind, and who cares if they did) and play that day.