I think everyone at some time has had this problem. You play at the U18 level and pitch great, but then when you get down to kids your own age, you come down to level you think they’re at.
This happens to my HS volleyball all the time. Walk into a match overconfident because it might as well be a lock. All you need to do is show up. Then you play down to their level and they play up to yours. It’s one of the hardest things to work through mentally (plus losing to someone you’ve pegged as easy to defeat really sucks).
I’ve even had batters do this. It’s a good mentality for a batter to have sometimes, but I put a lot of thought into how I’m going to strike them out. Nothing beats having a chirpy batter sit down after two really slow changeups in the dirt (they usually make a comment at how bad you are here) followed by all you have right down the middle.