‘National Champions’ Calls for Change in College Sports, to Little Avail

By Nick Ratliff “National Champions” is a sports drama about two college football athletes fighting for something bigger than themselves. LeMarcus James (Stephan James) is a star quarterback projected to be the number one pick in the upcoming NFL draft, while Emmett Sunday (Alexander Ludwig) is a starter who is not projected to make it past the college level. Three days before the national championship game, these two athletes protest the game on the basis that student-athletes should be ...