On March 27, 2012, USA Today announced that Jacobson would leave ESPN when her contract expires at the end of April.

Subsequently, she attended and graduated from Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, in 1989.

Jacobson graduated from the University of Michigan in 1993[2] with a Bachelor of Arts in English and communications and was a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority.

On the October 11, 2018, edition of CBS This Morning, host Gayle King announced that Jacobson was engaged.

[4][5] Jacobson and ESPN both released a statement apologizing to those offended by the roast comments.