The Real Housewives of College Football (Notre Dame and Lane Kiffin edition) with Jessica Smetana and Grace Raynor, Lena Dunham loves Travis Kelce, and pay Trinity Rodman!
The Sports Gossip Show
The Athletic
4.8 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Madeline is in the Galapagos (extremely cool) so Charlotte is flying solo today with some help from Sports Gossip Show friends Grace Raynor and Jessica Smetana! Grace is a college football writer at The Athletic and Jess is the co-host of The Echoes, a Notre Dame podcast. They are both brilliant and SGS Shareholders should follow them if you don’t already!
First, a monologue from Charlotte: Lena Dunham went to a Chiefs game with Taylor Swift (and Selena Gomez), but the Chiefs’ vibes are bad! They’re 6-7 and below .500 for the first time in December since 2012. Stanford soccer invited Taylor Swift to the women’s college cup game in Kansas City — she didn’t seem to go, and Florida State won anyway. Washington Spirit star and NWSL free agent Trinity Rodman had a deal blocked by the NWSL commissioner. Silly! Pay her! And, finally, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers went to a Knicks game on behalf of Reese’s.
Then it’s time to bring in Grace to talk about Ole Miss and Lane Kiffin’s breakup, and how Nick Saban’s daughter teased a messy Lane Kiffin story on TikTok. She also explains the shockingly good recruiting under Bill Belichick at UNC, the bad recruiting at Penn State, and a whole lot of other dramatic CFB stories!
Jess then pops in to explain the College Football Playoffs and why people were apoplectic when Notre Dame was left out. This is a great explainer for anyone confused about college football — Jess makes it make more sense than it deserves to make.
Thanks to Jess and Grace and all of the Shareholders out there!
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, testing, testing. It's not the same without, it's not the same without my partner in crime. One, two, three, four, five. We'll see how that sounded. |
| 0:15.1 | Hi, shareholders. Hi, shareholders. |
| 0:22.6 | Hi, Charlotte. |
| 0:24.9 | You know, doing this. |
| 0:27.5 | This is, guys, Madeline's gone. |
| 0:29.0 | Madeline's on a boat. |
| 0:29.9 | Madeline's at sea. |
| 0:34.5 | Madeline is on a family trip in the Galapagos this week. |
| 0:42.0 | I am so thrilled for her. She's on a boat, which is my personal dream. |
| 0:48.0 | I love boat. You know, Madeline sent me a picture of this boat, and I was like, I felt my serotonin levels rise, just looking at this picture of a boat. I love boats. I love sailing. |
| 0:52.9 | I love driving a boat. I love, |
| 0:54.8 | you know, and I was like, it's just so interesting to me that I'm probably happiest, |
| 1:01.8 | the happiest ever on a boat, and yet I don't do that for a living. Like, it's not a part of my |
| 1:07.9 | regular life. So, I don't know, like, Hinkley, if you're listening, any sailors will be like, oh, yeah. |
| 1:17.1 | Hinkley makes these luxury boats that are so beautiful and so expensive. |
| 1:23.0 | I think it would be really iconic if we were the first sports podcast sponsored by a Hinkley picnic boat. |
| 1:29.3 | But, okay, this is going to be a little bit of a wild ride, folks. |
| 1:33.7 | I'm going to do a little monologue here. |
| 1:36.1 | Later in the show, we have the athletics college football writer Grace Rainer back with us. |
| 1:42.1 | She last was here to talk about Bill Belgic at UNC. And we have my dear |
| 1:47.9 | friend, Jessica Smatanna, host of the Echoes podcast in Notre Dame podcast, to talk about why |
| 1:54.1 | people have been melting down about Notre Dame not being a part of a college football playoff. |
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