Belmont Cameli Leads Off Campus Season 2 in Heated Rivalry Copy
Belmont Cameli leads off campus season 2 as Garrett Graham, the Briar University captain at the center of a new hockey romance series review that calls the show a straight copy of Heated Rivalry. The review places the series in the same lane as another hockey adaptation, then pushes harder on the differences in tone, casting, and body-level comedy.
Briar University and Garrett Graham
Garrett Graham sits at the center of the series because he is both the captain of the Briar University hockey team and the son of hockey legend Phil Graham, played by Steve Howey. That setup gives Off Campus a built-in hierarchy: family name, team status, and the pressure of failing at school all sit in the same frame, with Hannah Wells opposing him on the other side of the classroom.
Hannah Wells, played by Ella Bright, is a music major whose scholarship is abruptly terminated, leaving her poor and working multiple jobs while Garrett is failing in a class she is smashing. That contrast is the engine here, and the review treats it as part romance, part campus-status scramble rather than a soft-focus college story.
Heated Rivalry Comparison
The review calls Off Campus soapy, spicy and incredibly moreish, then lands on the sharper judgment: it is a straight copy of Heated Rivalry. Heated Rivalry came first as an adaptation of Rachel Reid’s gay romance novel series, while Off Campus draws from Elle Kennedy’s heterosexual romance novel series, so the comparison is not just about hockey but about how closely one adaptation appears to shadow another’s formula.
The useful takeaway for viewers is simple: if Heated Rivalry worked for them because of hockey, desire and serialized tension, Off Campus is aiming at the same audience with a different book source and a more conventional pairing. That kind of overlap can be a strength, but it also invites close comparison scene by scene, especially when the review says the newer series feels like a direct duplicate instead of a sibling project.
Showers, Changing Rooms, Justin
Josh Heuston’s Justin and the repeated use of showers and changing rooms for nude scenes suggest the series is leaning into spectacle as much as relationship plotting. The review’s phrasing about “one bit of hockey” signals where its attention lands: less on sport as competition, more on hockey as a social setting for the romance machine.
For readers deciding whether to watch, that means Off Campus looks designed for viewers who want college-hockey romance with explicit heat and familiar emotional beats, not a reinvention of the form. The sharper issue is whether the show can do enough with Belmont Cameli, Ella Bright and Steve Howey to justify being seen as more than a polished remake of a stronger template.
